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Uprising join Police to support knife crime awareness message

Rob started working for Uprising in December 2018. As an active member of a London gang throughout his youth Rob spent a number of years in prison. Years later, Rob turned his life around and wanted to share his experience with other young people in the hope that they wouldn’t make the same mistakes he made. Rob was given the opportunity to do this in partnership with Ashford Police as part of their knife crime awareness campaign, ‘Op Jump’.

Through out February and March Rob’s presentation was given in schools and heard by 8,000 young people, with a number of knives handed in to the police as a result.

Rob’s open and honest discussions about his past decisions and their consequences struck a chord with the media, especially in the current climate and rise in knife crime.

Rob appeared on ITV Meridian and subsequently has appeared on major media networks including BBC Breakfast,BBC Radio London and Radio 5 Live.

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Going forward we are looking at other ways we can support young people and the challenges they face around carrying knife’s and knife crime in general.