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19.05.2022 - 21:21 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A violence reduction unit set up to tackle knife crime in Greater Manchester can't say how many people have been the victim of knife crime due to technical issues with GMP's computer system, according to a report seen by the Manchester Evening News .
The unit was set up by Greater Manchester Police and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) in 2019 with money from the Home Office, in response to an increase to the region's violence, particularly knife crime among young people.
An annual report published by the unit for 2021 to 2022 described a "significant" increase in violence in schools post-lockdown, and said that reports of domestic abuse to police had already increased in 2022.
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The document also pointed to the number of fatal incidents of knife crime across the region since the start of 2022, including the four tragic 'murders' of boys and young men.
Kennie Carter, 16, Alan Szelugowski, 17, Dylan Keelan, 20, and Neri Morse, 24, all died after being stabbed on the streets of Greater Manchester between January and April this year.
But away from the high-profile crimes, authors of the report admitted that due to ongoing technical issues with GMP's iOPs system - which has been plagued with problems since its launch in 2019 - they are struggling to extract the necessary data to calculate the exact number of knife crimes being committed.
The report stated: "In 2018, Greater Manchester Police recognised an issue with their reported knife crime data. The Greater Manchester trend was significantly lower than the national trend. In Spring, Manchester Metropolitan University developed an algorithm to text mine the
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