Weapons recovered during police crackdown on knife crime

Weapons sweeps have been conducted in parks and wasteland across the West Midlands as part of a concerted offensive on knife crime.Up to 15 parks, plus open land and communal residential spaces, were searched last week by officers on the hunt for knives hidden in public stashes by offenders.Plain clothes officers also worked with Trading Standards on ‘test purchase’ operations at the region’s shops looking for outlets flouting retail laws by selling knives to children.The clamp