Knife crime: Anti-stab protection vests given to key staff in hospitals, schools, etc
06 07 08 - 06:40 The growing fear of knife crime in Britain is forcing hospital trusts and local authorities to supply body armour to frontline workers, including A&E staff, hospital porters, teachers, benefits officers and traffic wardens.Stab and bullet-proof vests are being ordered in their tens of thousands to protect employees from increased levels of aggression, a move described as 'a shameful indictment of violence in Britain today'.
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[ Indeed it is shameful. A commentator on TV blamed it on the "cultural DNA" of some people to carry knives... What could he have been trying to say? ]
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