00:00The SEPTA initiative by Neighbourhood Policing Team officers in West Yorkshire
00:05has seen extra-high visibility patrols in hotspot areas for knife crime
00:09and sweeps of parks and open spaces in Wakefield, Kirklees and Bradford.
00:14A number of weapons were recovered by officers, including a machete
00:18and a host of blades seized from the secure knife bin in Huddersfield Town Centre.
00:23Uniformed police were at Wakefield bus station with knife arches
00:28in order to reassure travellers, and officers visited schools and other educational establishments
00:34to warn children about the dangers of carrying knives.
00:37Spot checks took place in Huddersfield shops to ensure retailers were complying with legislation
00:43regarding the sale of knives, and Bradford officers deployed the force's new live
00:47facial recognition cameras in the city centre.
00:50LFR is used in carefully selected authorised locations to help identify individuals
00:55who are wanted by the courts, subject to arrest, or pose a risk to the public.
01:00Faces that match the biometrics of someone on a watch list will create an alert,
01:04while data relating to all other faces is instantly deleted.
01:08Police operations to reduce knife offending continue to be supported
01:11by the West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership,
01:14which provides key interventions across communities to reduce and prevent violent offending.
01:19Between April last year and March this year, it's supported more than 16,000 young people under 25
01:26and almost 1,000 adults since April 2025.
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