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The true scale of London's escalating gang culture is revealed for the first time today. A police document names 257 gang names - an increase of 100 in just three years. The bewildering array is shown on a amp complied by analysts at Scotland Yard's Specialist Crime Directorate.
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) was developed in the aftermath of the 2011 London riots and is a tool used to identify and risk-assess the most harmful gang...
In London, this is most clearly institutionalised in the Metropolitan Police Service Gangs Violence Matrix – a database of suspected gang members in London which went into operation at the beginning of 2012.
Review of the Metropolitan Police Service Gangs Violence Matrix – Second Annual Review Introduction The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) was developed in the...
The below is the latest data relating to the MPS Gang Violence Matrix (GVM). The data in this report relates to the GVM as of 31st March 2022. There are currently 1906 individuals on the GVM. 701 of these are in custody.
3.1 85% of areas encountered gangs from London and 25% were solely affected by London groups. Other gangs were reported to have travelled from Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Reading and...
The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) are committed to conducting a Review of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Gangs Matrix. The Review follows the Mayor’s Manifesto pledge in...
estimated 225 recognised gangs in London, comprising of around 3,600 gang members. 58 of these gangs are reckoned to be particularly active, being responsible for around two thirds of all gang related offences.
Introduction. This article focuses on the relationship between crime and gang involvement among a small minority of Black young people in London. This is not because young people of different ethnicities or from different regions are not involved in gang crime.
London areas were more likely to say the number of gangs had increased while those outside London were more likely to report a decrease. Estimates of change in the number of gang...
violent gang-related offences in the Greater London area. The researchers noted that one of these databases prioritised gun crime, while another focused on so-called ‘Black-on-Black’ crime. They...
response to the saturation of the London drugs markets, gangs are moving outside to develop operations in other towns where there is little competition and they are unknown to local law enforcement agencies.
As discussed above, the emergent scholarly interest in youth gangs is particularly noteworthy because it was only thirty years ago or so, that the consensus amongst British social scientists, was that America had youth street gangs whilst the UK had ‘youth subcultures’ (Campbell et al., 1982).
reports,1 gangs thrive when neighbourhoods are plagued by low employment, high family breakdown, addiction and poor educational achievement. The riots in August 2011 also highlighted the problem, with at least one in five of those arrested in London known to be part of a gang.2 This was
Review of the Metropolitan Police Service Gangs Violence Matrix: Update on the implementation of the MOPAC recommendations. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) was...
The Gang and Youth Violence team within the Home Office identified a growing body of intelligence, emerging in particular from London and the South East, that vulnerable young people are being...
Office of the Children’s Commissioner’s Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups Final Report. London: Office of the Children’s Commissioner.
gangs are a problem in their local area5. Gangs range from organised criminal networks involved in Class A drugs supply and firearms, through to street-based gangs involved in violence and personal...
• Some violent crimes in London had started to fall before the pandemic –for example knife crime resulting in injury and gun crime. • However, the number of teenage homicides in 2021, the highest...
part of this picture. Conversations with practitioners such as Abianda, Redthread and St Giles Trust show that gang associated girls are subject to some of the most serious crimes, that can range...
