Cops use ‘pop up’ metal detector knife arches on London’s streets as stabbing crisis grips UK

The portable metal detector was deployed in busy Soho last night, with pedestrians forced to walk through it to proceed down a narrow alleyway.

Those who were seen turning away were then searched by officers.

Last night cops detained three people for possessing drugs but none over knives.

Cops then moved the battery-powered arch to other areas to remain unpredictable.

Westminster Chief Inspector Andy Brittain said: "The idea of it is to show the community that we are responding to their concerns around knife crime, and we use it to prevent knife crime and also to detect knife crime.

"The beauty of this, and this narrow alleyway, is we will see those that turn around and try to walk the other way.
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8574134/knife-crime-metal-detector-arches-...