Wiltshire shops caught 'selling knives to children'

Officers from Wiltshire Police, including PC Cannings and PC Robbins, have been supporting an operation to conduct checks on businesses in Trowbridge and Melksham. This comes as part of Operation Sceptre, a knife crime awareness campaign taking place this week. Police Cadets, with the support of officers from local neighbourhood teams, have been visiting shops in the towns to try and purchase knives.

The aim of this operation was to see if outlets would check the IDs of customers who did not look old...



Jason Hughes.