{"id":160469,"date":"2025-06-05T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160469\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:49:14","slug":"two-teenagers-arrested-in-birmingham-after-combat-knives-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160469\/","title":{"rendered":"Two teenagers arrested in Birmingham after combat knives found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> West Midlands Police&#8217;s Guardian Taskforce<\/a> spotted two boys while out on Bristol Road in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selly Oak, Birmingham<\/a> on Wednesday afternoon (June 4) who, upon being spotted, attempted to flee from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>They were caught and detained after a short food chase, then arrested when, after a search of the teens and the area, two large combat knives were uncovered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old and 17-year-old boys were arrested for possession of a bladed article and remain in custody for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: &#8220;Two teenagers have been arrested for carrying knives in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers from our Guardian Taskforce were carrying out patrols in Selly Oak, Birmingham, yesterday (Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While patrolling in Bristol Road, officers spotted two boys who reacted to the police presence, and following a short foot chase they were detained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following searches of the teens and the area, they were found to have discarded two knives whilst running. We seized two large combat knives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The boys, aged 16 and 17 were arrested for possession of a bladed article. They remain in custody for questioning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were made as part of Operation Guardian, a specialist taskforce which tackles<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> knife crime and youth violence.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police said there is particular emphasis on reducing knife crime in under 25-year-olds, through a range of tactics from plain-clothed operations to high visibility patrols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers from West Midlands Police&#8217;s Guardian Taskforce spotted two boys while out on Bristol Road in Selly Oak,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,188,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-160469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114631315535762957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}