UK Spends £26M on Knife Crime Tech, Youth Hubs

0:00It's April 7. This is Europe News today, AI-powered stories from across the continent. The UK government just dropped 26 million pounds to fight knife crime using super precise mapping tech that pinpoints hotspots down to 1, 100 square meters, and even the times they happen most. This cash goes into a new knife crime concentrations fund for 27 police forces in England and Wales, handling 90 percent of these. Letting cops share national data to zero in on repeat trouble streets. According to the Home Office, most knife attacks cluster in just a few spots, so expect to ramp up patrols, fresh CCTV, live facial recognition, and knife detection arches to snag offenders and protect neighborhoods. Policing Minister Sarah Jones called it a game changer, stressing how knife crime wrecks lives and families, with the big goal to cut it in half over. The next decade through smarter ops, meanwhile, they're kicking off youth hubs in high-risk

1:00spots, like Birmingham, Manchester, and Tower Hamlets, 8 to start, leading to 50. Nationwide, under the protecting lives, building hope plan, blending enforcement with community support to turn the tie for good.