Fighting knife Crime - Leigh-on-Sea

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Leigh News. MP for Southend West, Anna Firth, organised a meeting fellow Essex MPs to mark Knife Crime Awareness Week.

MP for Southend West, Anna Firth, organised a meeting fellow Essex MPs to mark Knife Crime Awareness Week.

Ms Firth, Mark Francois, MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, Rebecca Harris, MP for Castle Point, Giles Watling, MP for Clacton, and Stephen Metcalfe, MP for South Basildon and East Thurrock met with Essex Police Fire and Crime Commissioner Roger Hirst in the House of Commons in support of Essex Police’s work to eliminate knife crime.

The force’s Op Sceptre was ramped up for the awareness week, seeing the use of knife arches and ‘Open Gate’ devices, to detect weapons, set up across the county.

The MPs were joined by campaigner Julie Turner, who runs Liam Taylor Legacy in memory of her grandson who was stabbed to death.

Ms Turner fundraises for lifesaving bleed kits to be handed to venues across Essex in a bid to save the lives of people who are stabbed.

Ms Firth said: “I was delighted to join colleagues from across Essex to support the work that our brilliant Police Fire and Crime Commissioner Roger Hirst and Essex Police are doing to stop knife crime across the county.

“Knives take lives, and we need to get them off our streets and out of people’s hands.”

Picture: Anna and Giles Watling with Julie Taylor and Roger Hirst

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