Sir Christopher Chope put his idea to senior police chiefs, who dismissed the strategy to improve 'street-based combat skills'.
"They can protect themselves by actually knowing how to deal with such an incident were it to arise."Sir Christopher added that"you need to be fit to do that", leading the West Midlands Police chief constable to warn:"I think people have got to run away.
"I'd probably not advocated a strategy of increasing the combat readiness and martial arts of young people in general."He added that some martial art sports are"hugely popular" and"take young men off the streets"."So if they say 'well I'm carrying a knife because I want to protect myself,' an alternative to that is actually to protect yourself by actually being fitter and more able to deal with that sort of attack," he said.
"In the same way as a lot of young women are taught how to deal with men who get violent or threatening towards them." Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, said that"meaningful, purposeful activity is always good" and that sports programmes were"clearly keeping young people very safe".
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