Knife crime and gang culture are discussed by candidates ahead of the Wellingborough by-election.
Calls for more visible policing and new initiatives to draw young people away from gangs have been heard in a BBC East Wellingborough by-election discussion.Candidates taking part in the debate included Ana Savage Gunn , Ben Habib , Helen Harrison , Gen Kitchen , Will Morris and Marion Turner-Hawes .The by-election will be held in Wellingborough on Thursday following a recall petition in the Northamptonshire constituency.
Conservative candidate Helen Harrison said: "We all remember the awful death of Dylan and what I think was so shocking was the ferocity of what happened to him. It was absolutely awful. She added: "That's really important because what people tell me on the doorstep is they want to see visible policing on the streets."Labour candidate Gen Kitchen said: "People across the constituency don't feel safe.
"That's my background. That's what I've done before and that's a practical way an MP can support the work."Lib Dem candidate and former Northamptonshire Police inspector Ana Savage Gunn said: "Helen talked about how many police officers we have got that are extra. "We've an economy that is not growing. What we need to understand are the holistic causes of the increase in knife crime," he said."We need more police officers particularly because we've had so much immigration over the last few years which we must cut back."
"We have to look at how we conduct ourselves in public. We have to look at the example we set. We need to look at why young men are attracted to what seems an easy life of gangs and drugs and cash.
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