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320 ‘Bleed Control Kits' to be Given to Bars in London
2019-11-21
[Summit] 320 ’bleed control kits’ are to be given to bars in the City of London as the UK capital’s knife crime epidemic continues to soar.

The kits will be handed out by City of London police across the 1.12 square mile center of the city at a cost of £25,000.

Authorities said they were "proud" to launch the initiative, with David Lawes, Chief Superintendent of the City of London Police, telling Sky News that the decision was a "no brainer."

"This is a really, really simply piece of kit which can make a big difference. Particularly with the most catastrophic bleeds, if you don’t get help in the first few minutes the person will almost certainly die," said Lawes.

"The kits contain tourniquets, trauma bandages, adhesive chest seals and foil blankets, and can help treat both knife and gunshot wounds. Bar staff will be trained in their use, so that victims of violent crime will not bleed out before an ambulance can reach them," writes Jack Hadfield.

Knife crime in the City of London jumped by 43% over the last year while in that same time period England saw a record high of 43,000 knife crimes across the country.

Violent crime levels show little sign of coming down as authorities refuse to tackle some of the core reasons for the bloodshed, which include broken families, weakened police powers and mass migration.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  Two gits at the bar were disputing
The merits of stabbing v. shooting
Which led to such strife,
Not to say loss of life,
That it shuttered the Wheatsheaf in Tooting.
Posted by: Pancho Snomp1274   2019-11-21 16:58  

#9  How about distributing Bleed Pre-Emption Kits?
aka heat
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-21 16:27  

#8  Bar staff will be trained in their use

The jukeboxes will be retrofitted with defibrillator kits, and the bartenders are to wear surgical smocks all the time. Also, drills will be conducted on how to scream and make a fuss, for all the wimmin.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-21 15:44  

#7  The UK culture will eventually discover and realize long after less PC constrained cultures have already known....... the adage “The Gun Is Civilization”. I suggest those who are not familiar with this idea to search for this fundamental idea by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.)
Posted by: Ospas Dhahran 49   2019-11-21 15:28  

#6  Well, they are trying to solve the knife crime epidemic by banning knives.
I think that the bleed kits will be more effective. Assuming you stabbed while you're in a bar.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2019-11-21 12:23  

#5  Horse, barn door, lock, order as appropriate.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-11-21 11:43  

#4  No more raiding the lady's room tampon dispenser.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-11-21 09:46  

#3  P2k, where's the graft in that?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-11-21 09:41  

#2  Not Bee! Damn, lost again.
Posted by: Lex   2019-11-21 09:21  

#1  Great, addressing the symptoms not the cause.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-11-21 08:16  

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