Overview
- The National Knife Crime Centre launched Thursday with £1.7 billion a year for three years and a mission to help halve knife crime within a decade.
- Led by Commander Stephen Clayman, the hub will coordinate investigations into illegal sellers, focus on bulk resales through social media, and work with Border Force and HMRC to block risky imports.
- Police report that more than half of the websites pushing banned blades to UK buyers operate overseas, including in the United States and China.
- Ronan’s Law is moving through Parliament with tougher online age verification and mandatory reporting of bulk orders, while ministers consult on licensing or registering knife sellers.
- The drive follows ONS figures of about 50,000 knife crimes in the year to September 2025, with bereaved families such as Ronan Kanda’s backing tighter rules to keep weapons from children.