Fewer than a third of offenders caught with knives in the West Mercia area were jailed, new figures show.
Ministry of Justice data shows that in Shropshire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire, the areas covered by West Mercia Police, there were 233 cautions or sentences for knife related crime in the in the year ending March 2023.
First time offenders account for 67 per cent of all those found guilty of knife and offensive weapon offences in the area, and of these only a fifth were sent to jail. “Throughout the year officers across our counties work tirelessly to raise awareness of the dangers of carrying a knife and take early intervention measures to prevent young people from getting involved in knife crime in the first place.
Across England and Wales, the proportion of offenders sent into immediate custody for a knife offence fell from 37 per cent in the year ending March 2020 to 30 per cent this year.
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