Beware the Ides...

udging from information supplied by the Victoria Police

Department it’s not just the Ides of March we should be

wary of, like Julius Caesar, when it comes to knives.

Knives are an every-day concern to members of local
police forces.

While in last week’s Top Story, we told you about guns and the
regulations concerning them, it’s knives that present the greater
hazard on local streets and bars. é

People are arming themselves with knives of all descriptions, at
an alarming rate. A large box or recently-confiscated knives was
produced for a reporter in the property room at Victoria Police
headquarters. It contained a chilling array of weapons from the
common kitchen variety to sleek commando models. From
stilettos to machettes - police are seizing the weapons in
increasing numbers from street people, desperados and dope
fiends.

Superintendent Doug Richardson said the main weapon of
concern for his department is knives. In 1989 Victoria Police
investigated 137 cases involving weapons, an increase of 25 per
cent from 1988. Of those weapons cases, 46 per cent involved
knives. Only 28 per cent involved guns. . :

Robberies were up 23 per cent in 1989. Victoria Police
investigated 178 cases and of those, 24 involved the use of a knife
and only fiveinvolved the use of a gun. Sixteeen of those robberies

were commited using the “old hand in the pocket trick” to:

simulate a gun.

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