 A large number of knives were collected during a recent amnesty |
A major new campaign aimed at challenging attitudes towards the carrying of knives across Scotland has been launched. Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson unveiled details of the eight-week campaign featuring radio, newspaper and bus adverts and a nationwide roadshow.
It is the latest effort to tackle the problem and follows new legislation to toughen the laws on knife carrying.
A national knives amnesty took place during the summer.
There have been two Safer Scotland enforcement campaigns, the second of which is still running.
Violent crime
The minister launched the latest campaign at Rosshall Academy, Glasgow, with the head of Strathclyde Police's Violence Reduction Unit, Det Supt John Carnochan.
The campaign will be conducted at a cost of �580,000, with anti-knife roadshows touring areas affected by violent crime.
Ms Jamieson said enforcement alone could not solve Scotland's knife culture.
"We need to challenge the idea that knife carrying is acceptable or a normal," she said.
"The campaign highlights the work which is already being done to rid Scotland's streets of this problem, while challenging the idea that children need to grow up in a society where knife carrying is normal."
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