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<p>On 13 March the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £100 million
of funding for serious violence in 2019/20 to help the police’s immediate response
to the rise in serious knife crime, and also to support investment in Violence Reduction
Units. It is important that we recognise that greater law enforcement on its own will
not reduce serious violence and that we must continue to focus on prevention.</p><p>The
majority of the investment will go towards supporting police forces where violent
crime is impacting the most, to take immediate action to suppress the violence we
are seeing, to make our streets safer. We are engaging with partners including the
National Police Chiefs’ Council and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners
and we are developing the criteria by which forces will receive this funding.</p>
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