Knife offenders lack male role models, says senior police officer
However, a much lower figure of 6,560 children were actually known by youth offending teams or children's services to be involved in gangs.
ACC Sebire said:"Where you do have positive male role models, they are potentially the drug dealers, or the exploiters or the organised criminal networks - they become the positive male role model." But speaking to reporters at the NPCC conference in Westminster this week, ACC Sebire acknowledged a number of factors contributed to the problem of knife crime.
But there were only two passing references to"role models" in the department's 114-page strategy document and no mention of how the absence of such father figures might lead young people down the path towards drug dealing and violent crime.
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