{"id":10119,"date":"2024-05-15T03:12:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T03:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/young-people-buying-large-knives-on-telegram-and-tiktok-police-say-5\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T03:12:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T03:12:01","slug":"young-people-buying-large-knives-on-telegram-and-tiktok-police-say-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/young-people-buying-large-knives-on-telegram-and-tiktok-police-say-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people buying large knives on Telegram and TikTok, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commander says authorities scrambling to keep up with supply trends as knife crimes rise<\/p>\n<p>Young people are using sites such as Telegram and TikTok to buy large knives for use in attacks and intimidation, with some linked to Britain\u2019s drug wars, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Clayman, national lead for knife crime for the National Police Chiefs\u2019 Council, made it clear on Tuesday that police want tougher action after a 7% year-on-year rise in knife offences, with a 20% rise in knife-point robberies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/young-people-buying-large-knives-on-telegram-and-tiktok-police-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commander says authorities scrambling to keep up with supply trends as knife crimes rise Young people are using sites such as Telegram and TikTok to buy large knives for use in attacks and intimidation, with some linked to Britain\u2019s drug wars, police said. Stephen Clayman, national lead for knife crime for the National Police Chiefs\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}