Police in Ealing have teamed up with film students to create a hard-hitting video highlighting the dangers of knife crime.

The film forms part of the Ealing Metropolitan Police Service's Operation Renounce, launched in April, to carry out targeted patrols, searching open spaces and public areas for secreted weapons, and increasing interventions around youth related, anti-social behaviour.

It comes during the same week that Ealing police seized a 16cm blade from an 11-year-old pupil in a school and a week after a boy of the same age took a knife into a Hillingdon school unnoticed.

The force has now teamed up with students from Met Film School to show exactly just how devastating the effects of knife crime are.

Augustin Hardy, and his fellow Masters film students, were interested in working with the police to produce a video that would look at the issue of carrying a knife.

PS Cahill said: "This was a great opportunity to work in partnership with Augustin and his fellow students from the Met Film School.

"Not only was it an opportunity to support them in their academic studies but also an opportunity to obtain a fresh perspective on the dangers of carrying knives."

Ealing Police's film hopes to highlight where youths get their knives from

The short video represents the perspective of a kitchen knife and is intended to serve as a reminder that many of the knives carried by young people are obtained from the home environment.

The video is intentionally open ended in order to provoke a discussion with children and young adults as to the possible outcome dangerous outcomes of carrying a knife.

PS Cahill added: "We would like to take this opportunity to thank Augustin and his team for all their hard work and wish them all the best with the rest of their studies."

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