The Metropolitan Police has raised alarming concerns about the ease with which children can purchase knives, highlighting substantial failures in age verification systems compared to the stricter regulations around buying paracetamol. Commander Stephen Clayman emphasized these vulnerabilities during a discussion on knife crime, indicating that serious action is needed to rectify the situation. The government has initiated new measures to counteract these sales, with plans that could impose two-year prison sentences for sellers caught selling knives to minors, alongside mandatory reporting of suspicious activities by retailers.
Bizarrely, it is harder to buy paracetamol in some respects than it is to buy a knife. And that can't be right.
The age verification is a huge vulnerability, both in terms of at point of sale and at delivery.
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