Scotland Yard launches biggest ever crackdown on guns in London

In view of the increase in incidents of stabbings and firearms offenses, the Met Police have launched joint operations of crackdown on guns involving hundreds of specialist officers, including firearms teams. Ever since January, 15 teenagers have been stabbed to death in London. Hence this operation of Scotland Yard - it is one of its biggest ever operations against gun and knife crime in the capital.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 11 December 2015.

Apart from the stabbings of teenagers, there have also been more than 350 firearms-related incidents in London so far this year - this is up 15% on the 2014 figure.
The crackdown follows a guns amnesty that had been announced two weeks after the Paris terror attacks. As a result of the amnesty, dozens of guns were recovered, including an AK47 assault rifle, the same kind of weapon used in the attack on the French capital.
The operation, codenamed Kestrel, is being run by the Trident and Area Crime Command.
The police have seized eight firearms, including two handguns and three sawn-off shotguns, four knives, two swords, 11 kilos of cocaine, three kilos of cannabis, one kilo of MDMA, four kilos of crack cocaine and heroin with a street value of £250,000.
Operation Kestrel is an extension of an earlier initiative that had been launched against knife crime in June in which 6000 arrests were made and 1,000 knives were seized.

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