Children as young as 11 have been detained by police in Manchester, as efforts intensify to tackle rising knife crime.
Sky News has been given exclusive access to an elite policing unit within Greater Manchester Police, created to tackle serious violence.
The team, which is made up of uniformed and covert officers, has seized 100s of knives off the streets since its creation at the end of 2022.
Sky’s Katerina Vittozzi reports.
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