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UK Hospitals Not Sharing Gun, Knife Crime Data
31 January 2013
BBC News
A coalition pledge to make hospitals share violent crime data with police is being carried out in only a third of areas in England, an audit shows.
The government has written to hospitals and chief constables for an explanation after the Department of Health audit.
Accident and emergency departments are meant to share information about where knife or gun attacks are happening with the police and local council.
This was part of the government's programme for... (GunPolicy.org)