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New plans to tackle knife crime

Young people who are caught carrying knives will be made to visit hospitals where stab victims are treated. Alf Hitchcock, deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, and Donald Mackechnie, of the college of emergency medicine, discuss how this will work.

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