Management information being used to monitor TKAP suggests that in the period June to November 2008 there were 815 more convictions for possession of a knife or offensive weapon in the 10 TKAP areas than in the same period of 2007. This figure represents a 17 per cent. increase between the two periods.
These figures are provisional and have been derived from the police’s administrative IT system, which, as with any large scale recording system, is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.