Police in Harrow have revealed the deadly display of weaponry handed in as part of a clamp down of knife crime in the capital.

Harrow Police tweeted a picture of "some" of the knives recovered from just one knife bins in the borough.

The initiative is part of the Metropolitan Police 's Operation Sceptre, in which more than 500 arrests and 400 weapons have been taken off the streets in the latest phase alone.

Knife bins can also be found throughout London as part of the Met's effort to take knives off the streets.

A map showing the location of the bins is available on the Met Police website .

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