College students create impactful video about knife crime

Devon & Cornwall Police and students from City College, Plymouth have collaborated to create two videos about knife crime, aimed at the students’ peer group.

The project was designed to create messaging by young people for young people to bust the myth that you are safer if you carry a knife, to help people make the right decision about knife carrying.

Young people sometimes have an inaccurate picture of knife crime in Devon and Cornwall, believing it to be as prevalent as in more urban locations which have particular issues with deprivation and gang culture. This view may also be magnified by media reports. This causes young people to carry a knife because they think they will be safer, but the stark truth is that carrying a knife can put a person in more danger of being involved in a knife-related incident.

The nine students (aged 17 and 18) wrote, directed and starred in the videos which will be shared and promoted by City College and Devon & Cornwall Police through various channels.

For the full article please see the Devon & Cornwall Police website here.