Op Sceptre Week

Operation Sceptre - Monday 18th May – Sunday 24th May 2026

Op Sceptre is a national initiative to tackle knife crime. During this week your Safer Neighbourhood Team will be out and about engaging with our residents through a number of different community engagements. 

School engagements,  where we work closely with schools to educate young people about the dangers of knife crime – the campaign works with those at risk of becoming involved with knife crime, diverting them towards a better life, through explaining the consequences of carrying/using knives for the wrong purpose. 

Your Safer Neighbourhood Team will be promoting the knife amnesty bins, giving our residents the opportunity to surrender any unwanted knives, to help keep them off the streets and possibly falling into the wrong hands. They will also be carrying out knife sweeps of local parks. 

And you will also see us visiting retail premises - where we will be speaking to workers ensuring that if they sell knives they are using Challenge 25 when necessary.

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