Cops crack down on knife crime after 138 incidents reported in East Ayrshire in last 10 months
POLICE investigated 138 knife crimes in East Ayrshire over the past 10 months.
And there were 13 serious attacks in Kilmarnock Prison compared to zero the previous year.
However, overall serious assault numbers have dropped to 54 from 66 the year before, with police catching the vast majority of offenders.
The statistics emerged at the East Ayrshire police and Fire and Rescue committee.
Ayrshire divisional commander Mark Hargreaves said officers had detected about 90 per cent of all serious assaults.
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