🔪 Operation Sceptre - 17th-23rd November 2025

Hello All

Op Sceptre is a  weeklong initiative to tackle knife and knife-enable crime. During this week, your Safer Neighbourhood Team will be out and about engaging with our residents through, school engagements,  where we work closely with schools to educate young people about the dangers of knife crime – the campaign works with those at risk of becoming involved with knife crime, diverting them towards a better life, through explaining the consequences of carrying/using knives for the wrong purpose.

Conducting street meets, with the knife amnesty bin, which gives residents the opportunity to surrender any unwanted knives, to help keep them off the streets and possibly falling into the wrong hands. 
And retail visits - we will be speaking to workers ensuring that if they sell knives they are using Challenge 25 when necessary and displaying educational posters.

🔪 Knife Bin and Catch up dates with PCSO Hunt

17th November - 8:45-9:45am - Matlock Bath Temple Car Park/School Gate Entrance. (No knife bin).
17th November - 1-3pm - Middleton Knit & Natter - Knife bin.
17th November - 3-3:30pm - Middleton School pick up (No knife bin).
18th November - 8:30-12pm - Wirksworth Market - Knife Bin
18th November - 2-4pm - Wirksworth Library - knife bin
21st November - 3-3:30pm - Cromford School pick up (No knife bin).
21st November - 3:30-4:30pm - Cromford St Marks Estate Car Park - Knife Bin
23rd November - 2-3pm - Bonsall, St James Church - Knife Bin.

If you know or think someone is carrying a knife, then please speak to someone and let us know, using any of the following methods:
Website – https://orlo/uk/seDCz
Facebook – Send us a private message to the Derbyshire Constabulary page.
X (twitter) – Direct message via @DerPolContact.
Phone – 999 (emergency) or 101 (non-emergency).

#OpSceptre #Droptheknife #Knifeamnesty #MatlockSNT

Thanks, PCSO Kirsty Hunt