Cheshire Police officers have been given funding to purchase life-saving Bleed Control Kits rolled out to pubs and bars across the area.

Between Monday 18 May and Sunday 24 May, Cheshire Constabulary took part in Sceptre, a national campaign led by the National Police Chiefs' Council focusing on tackling knife crime in our communities.

Officers and community partners visited 38 schools and youth organisations across Cheshire, delivering educational inputs and demonstrations surrounding the dangers of knife crime and gang culture.

Knife sweeps across our town centres and parklands, community and public‑facing engagements and deployments at our railway stations all took place over the course of the week of action.

As well as this, residents were also given a number of opportunities to safely dispose of any knives into designated surrender points across the county.

A number of Bleed Control Kits have been rolled out to several licensed premises in Nantwich, Crewe, Macclesfield and Congleton, as part of local Pub Watch schemes (Photo: Cheshire Police).

These efforts from officers from multiple departments across the county resulted in a total of 250 weapons being recovered.

In the run‑up to Sceptre week, officers in the east of the county were provided funding by the Safer Cheshire East Partnership (SCEP) to purchase 45 life‑saving Bleed Control Kits, which the public can use in incidents involving catastrophic bleeds.

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A number of these kits have been rolled out to several licensed premises in Nantwich, Crewe, Macclesfield and Congleton as part of local Pub Watch schemes.

Licensees were also provided with an in-person demonstration by an associate of the Daniel Baird Foundation, showing them how to use the kits should a life-threatening incident take place.

Eastern Crime Prevention Officer Victoria Moulton said: "Knife crime is a key priority and Cheshire Police has an excellent history of partnership working, so we are very grateful to have received this funding from the Safer Cheshire East Partnership.

"This distribution of emergency kits to pubs and licensed premises across the east could be the difference in saving someone's life.

"With a serious haemorrhage, it's a grim fact that you can bleed to death in under five minutes, time literally does save lives and the quicker treatment begins, the better your chances of survival.

"The implementation of these life-saving kits is a welcome addition to a range of initiatives that we already have in place across our town, designed to keep everyone who lives, works and visits our communities in Cheshire East safe."