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<p>No assessment has been made of the effect on knife crime or other offences of the
amendment to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code of Practice A which makes
clear what ‘reasonable grounds for suspicion’ are and that officers would be subject
to conduct or performance procedures as a result of misusing the power. The changes
came into force on 19 March 2015. More generally, statistical evidence does not suggest
a clear relationship between changes in the use of stop and search and knife crime.
The Home Office continues to monitor levels of knife crime but the latest figures
show that nationally it is 17% lower than in June 2010, and although it has seen a
slight rise of 4% in the last year (to June 2015) it remains close to its lowest level
since data was first collected.</p>
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