The Tackling Knives Action Programme (TKAP) ran
initially from June 2008 until March 2009 and aimed to
reduce teenage knife crime in ten police force areas in
England and Wales. TKAP Phase II was then launched
and the programme re-branded into the Tackling Knives
and Serious Youth Violence Action Programme. Phase II
ran from April 2009 to March 2010 in 16 police force
areas (the original ten TKAP forces and six new areas)1
and aimed to reduce all serious violence involving 13- to
24-year-olds using a range of enforcement, education and
prevention initiatives