More than 350 knives and £39,000 worth of drugs removed from Northamptonshire's streets during five-month police operation
More than 350 knives and £39,000 worth of drugs were removed from the streets of Northamptonshire during a five-month police operation.
Operation Glendale ran from May 2025 until autumn, with an aim to reduce serious violence, reduce repeat offending and the involvement of young people in knife crime.
Northamptonshire Police has now evaluated the operation and have concluded it helped to decrease knife crime by 4.89 percent.
Other results:
- 385 knives seized
- Seven firearms seized
- £39,000 worth of drugs recovered
- £30,000 in cash seized
- £9,000 of counterfeit goods recovered
- 3,000 illegal vapes seized
- 82 arrests made
- 14 vehicles seized
Safeguarding and prevention were also part of the operation. The team made more than 100 interventions, which steered young people away from crime.
Chief Inspector Oliver Charter who led the operation, said: “I am really pleased with the results from this operation. We remain as determined as ever to tackle serious violence across our county.
“Our approach through this operation saw just as many good results on the prevention side of things as it did in the enforcement area. It’s so important for us to try and engage with people as early as possible to prevent them from committing crimes further down the line.
“Our work didn’t stop with the end of this operation – many pieces of work are now embedded into business-as-usual practices, such as our Prison Intervention Programme.
“We remain committed to tackling serious violence and knife crime and will keep working hard to continue decreasing the number of offences while also increasing the number of positive outcomes.”