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Neighbourhood Policing Insp.
Inspector Christine Busuttil
Knife Crime Team Doubles In Size
help keep communities safe.
Neighbourhood Policing
Sergeant:
Sgt 620 Wealthall
Team No: 101 Ext: 318 9740
basfordsnt@nottinghamshire.pnn.
police.uk
Team Members:
PC 4294 Hirst
07971 059427
PCSO 4910 Cooper
07887 500541
PCSO 4519 Duffus
07958 338772
CPO 1964 Johnson
07422 073219
PC 3165 Bramhall
07711 441425
CPO 2722 Johnson
07889 704160
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A specialist police team committed
to driving down knife crime in
Nottinghamshire now has even more
teeth after doubling in size.
An extra sergeant and six police
constables have beefed up the numbers
on Nottinghamshire Police’s successful
Knife Crime Team, increasing its capacity
to tackle violence and crime, remove
dangerous weapons and drugs from the
streets and keep people safe.
It’s a welcome boost to the force’s
ongoing work to further reduce knife
crime by working closely with partners,
including Nottinghamshire’s enterprising
Violence Reduction Unit, and by using a
combination of engagement, education
and enforcement.
The boost in numbers comes after
latest official figures by the Office for
National Statistics show that knife crime
in Nottinghamshire reduced by 4% in the
year end to September 2020, compared
to the previous year.
Nottinghamshire’s fall in knife crime
was in stark contrast to the regional and
national picture (East Midlands regional
average rise of 2% and nationwide fall of
3% across England and Wales).
The new Knife Crime Team recruits are
based in Mansfield but can be deployed
anywhere in the county, acting on
intelligence and targeting those involved
in criminality.
They will also work closely with fellow
Knife Crime Team members in the city,
combining their resources effectively to
The force has been able to swell the ranks
of the Knife Crime Team due to being
at the forefront of the national police
recruitment drive through Operation Uplift,
which is recruiting hundreds of extra
officers to the force’s front line while also
becoming more representative of the
communities it serves.
The new team members are determined
to build on the proactive knife crime
team’s impressive statistics last year
which included:
• 276 people arrested
• 485 drug seizures
• 175 vehicle seizures
• 363 people reported for summons
• 450 weapons seized since team’s
inception in 2016
• Over 35,000 miles patrolled across
Nottinghamshire
As well as strong enforcement
action to crack down on knife crime,
Nottinghamshire Police has also
reintroduced schools and early
intervention officers who are dedicated to
working with children across the county
as part of its prevention work.
The force also continues to work closely
with its local partners and communities
to help tackle what is a societal issue
through education as well as diversionary
and intensive preventative intervention
work. A key driver helping to steer young
people away from knife crime and
violence is the Violence Reduction Unit
which continues to work with vulnerable
individuals and families to help make a
difference to young lives and put them
on the road to a safer and more positive
future.
Street outreach workers, a custody
diversion scheme and other initiatives
including the Ben Kinsella Trust at the
National Justice Museum also serve to
educate young people and help them to
make positive life choices.