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<p>This Government is committed to tackling knife crime and serious violence and making
our streets safer.</p><p>South Wales Police will benefit from being able to recruit
136 officers by the end of March 2021. This is in addition to the £290.3m in funding
South Wales Police are receiving in 2019/20 an increase of £19.3m on 2018/19.</p><p>In
the last 12 months South Wales Police has been provided with £2,080,000 from the Serious
Violence Fund; £1,200,00 for surge operational funding and £880,000 to develop their
Violence Prevention Unit. £1,211,542 has also been awarded to support projects across
all of Wales from the Early Intervention Youth Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, funding
has been awarded from the Anti-knife Community Fund and the Youth Endowment Fund to
projects covering South Wales. For more information see:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/844955/Anti_knife_crime_successful_bids_2019-20.csv/preview"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/844955/Anti_knife_crime_successful_bids_2019-20.csv/preview</a></p><p><a
href="https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/grantees-and-programmes/" target="_blank">https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/grantees-and-programmes/</a></p>
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