Idris Elba will work with the Authorities to cease knives ending up within the fingers of younger individuals.
Commander Stephen Clayman, the nationwide policing lead for knife crime, will perform an pressing assessment of “gaps in laws” as a part of a brand new initiative being launched on Monday.
Elba, the Hollywood actor and campaigner, will be part of Sir Keir Starmer in Downing Road to advertise a coalition of organisations coming collectively to cease younger individuals being dragged into violent gangs.
Know-how corporations, sporting organisations, the well being service and the police are additionally concerned in what is predicted to be the primary annual knife crime summit.
So-called zombie knives have already been outlawed however there may be concern that gaps exist in different areas of knife laws.
Present laws bans the sale of knives to beneath 18s however there may be concern that the regulation just isn’t sufficiently enforced, significantly amongst on-line retailers.
Campaigners have known as for stricter age checks for web gross sales.
