Actor and campaigner Idris Elba said whilst the Government’s plan to ban all types of Zombie-style knives is a move in the right direction, more still needs to be done to effectively close loopholes in the system. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 all approaches towards tackling this are good in my opinion. They are currently making the sort of
00:07 ban move up the agenda in parliament is definitely a symbolic step in the right direction. The ban
00:15 itself in particular of that, you know, I think still needs some tightening, there's still some
00:21 work to do, there's loopholes like, you know, swords aren't considered dangerous enough, but
00:29 mind you, there are swords being used in some of the cases that we're seeing in our country. So,
00:34 you know, what I'm keen about is that there is some movement and there is some
00:42 beginnings of some joined up thinking around this. The emphasis has been reactive, you know,
00:50 the whole country reacts when we see the numbers of knife crime and the tragedies and we react.
00:57 But I think, you know, at this junction where there is a little bit more focus on this
01:01 issue, now we can start to shift the emphasis, you know, hopefully we don't see any tragic
01:08 knife escalations and we can just concentrate on how to prevent them.