Bill Bratton, who is in the UK this week to advise government on how to deal with gangs, told the home affairs select committee that police must work in partnership with other agencies for progress to be made.
"You cannot arrest your way out of the problem," Bratton told MPs. "Police are not the solution to the gang issue.
"We are, I would argue, the most significant component of it but it is also about the partnerships police are able to form with probation and children’s services."
Bratton said Britain has an advantage over the US in terms of tackling gangs as in Britain they have only been in existence for the past 15 or 20 years, compared to three or four generations in the case of some US gangs.
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