Funding: Through existing Metropolitan Police and London Borough of Waltham Forest council funding
Aim: To reduce fear of crime among young people and to ensure that weapons are not being brought into school
The centrepiece of the Weapons in Schools Protocol, a joint project between police and schools in Waltham Forest through a Safer Schools Partnership, is the use of knife detector arches in all of the borough's secondary schools.
In June, pupils at all 19 secondary schools will have passed through the arches as part of the first wave of screenings.
So far, more than 12,000 pupils have been screened and no weapons have been found. But according to Chris Robbins, Waltham Forest Council's cabinet member for children and young people, the arches' value in allaying young people's fear of crime is just as important as finding weapons.
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