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Northumbria Police PCC launches Knives Impact Everyone campaign
National World - LocalTV
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10/08/2023
The Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner Kim McGuinness alongside the Violence Reduction Unit have launched the knives impact everyone campaign to get the message out there to young people.
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"Even if you've lost a loved one, no matter how the death happened, seeing a message like
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that will have an impact. It brings back as soon as I've seen the message today like,
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I miss you. That brought a lot of emotion to me because that is the message. I do miss
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Samantha a lot and it's a message you can send to the phone but you'll never get a reply."
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The Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner alongside the Violence Reduction Unit have
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launched a campaign aimed at young people to show them that carrying a knife does impact
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everyone. The image that will be used on public transport and in other forms of media is a
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text that hasn't been delivered, reading "I miss you so much." Reading that, the launch
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of the campaign, Carly and Alison from Samantha's Legacy and Tanya and Simon from the Connor
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Brown Trust got emotional as it really hit home for them after they lost someone close
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to them due to knife crime. "It's one of those messages that when you lose somebody you always
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want to send it but receive a message back and the message it's shown you is it hasn't
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been delivered and that's probably the biggest heartache you can receive." "It's so simplicity
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in what it is but yet it has such a hard hitting message in that message and it just hits you
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and it'll hit anybody, anybody who has lost anybody it will affect them and that's kind
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of the point of it. You can't help but not read the words, you can't help but not say
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that message, you just look up at that board and you instantly say that message and that
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is the hard hitting message that we want to get across." As the campaign was being created,
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police worked with young people to see how they could reach even more kids across the
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region. "So young people have told us that the text messages are how they communicate,
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it's how so many of us communicate now isn't it? But that emotional nature of the message
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I think is really important. You see this message on the back of the bus today that
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says 'I miss you' and it's not delivered and you know they're not going to get a reply
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and that is a really poignant message and most people who have come here today have
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gone 'huh' and had that kind of very visceral reaction to it." Unfortunately, knife crime
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has been a big subject in the North East over the past few years and the Chief Superintendent
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Helena Barron said that education and awareness is key at a young age. "Education is so important
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and raising awareness of the issue. You know we can't hide from the issue, we do know that
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we do have a problem with knives in our communities, it's a national issue, it's not just in the
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North East. Trying to educate people at a young age, trying to make them aware of the
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dangers of carrying weapons, the impact it can have not just on the person they use the
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weapon against but also on themselves if they end up in the criminal justice system as a
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result of it. It's devastating, it can have such a wide impact on so many people that
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trying to educate from a very young age is really, really important."
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