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Pupils can text knife crime fears

Schoolchildren across London are being urged to use text messages to report pupils carrying knives, in an initiative launched today.

Crimestoppers is promoting an anonymous texting service where pupils can send the name or nickname, school and school year of pupils carrying blades.

The charity then passes the information to police without any details of the texter's identity.

Crimestoppers, which is independent of the police, is launching the service across London after the success of a pilot scheme in three schools in Tower Hamlets. Children as young as 11 are to be targeted by the scheme, although it is aimed mostly at teenagers.

Posters advertising the Crimestoppers text number are to be distributed to schools in the coming weeks.

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