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Metal detector at Parkfield High School

Metal detector installed in school

By Charlotte Harriman

Parkfield High School in Wolverhampton has joined forces with the police to help cut knife crime.

A Wolverhampton school has been scanning pupils into the building as part of a security trial.Students at Parkfield High had to walk through a portable scanner to see if they were carrying any weapons.It's all part of an exercise by the police to teach children the dangers of carrying knifes.PC Steve Carrier from Blakenhall Neighbourhood Policing says schools are an ideal place to learn about the dangers of carrying a knife:"It has sent a message to the pupils to say that if you're out their carrying anything you shouldn't the police will find out you will be dealt with positively….

"Arthur Thomas - Headteacher of Parkfield says it's a lesson that needs to be learnt in school:Learning the dangers of carrying knives"It's part and parcel of our citizenship programme we are all of us reading in the newspapers and hearing stories of knife and youngsters with knifes in 2008 and I think we've a responsibility to encourage youngsters to lead sensible and purposeful lives.This initiative will complement their current teaching around citizenship and reinforce the input given through the force’s innovative resource ‘Tooled up for School’.

One of several Bronze Age axe heads taken illegally and sold on eBay

Warning over metal detector crime

Britain's heritage is under threat from illegal metal detector users - or "nighthawkers" - who face little chance of being caught, a report says.The UK-wide study found the threat to archaeological items was high, but prosecutions were at an all-time low and penalties "woefully insufficient". The English Heritage-commissioned report said criminals were using auction websites to sell antiquities. Many items are said to be worth little financially but of historical value. Illegal metal detecting is defined as "the search and removal of antiquities from the ground using metal detectors without the permission of the landowners or on prohibited land such as scheduled monuments". It is a form of theft and can be prosecuted under the Theft Act. English Heritage said responsible metal detecting provided a valuable record of history, but nighthawkers - by hoarding the finds or selling them on without recording - were thieves.

Roman sites

The crime is most prevalent in central and eastern England but the survey found it was almost unheard of in Northern Ireland. Counties with high incidences of nighthawking included Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. English Heritage said the 240 sites attacked between 1995 and 2008 were likely to be a fraction of the true scale of the under-reported crime. More than a third of the attacks were at scheduled monuments - key sites of historical interest. The study found only one in seven landowners who discovered they had been targeted by nighthawkers informed the authorities. Only 26 cases resulted in legal action, with most offenders handed a small fine, in one case for as little as £38. Researchers also found about one in every 20 archaeological excavation sites was targeted by thieves. They said Roman sites often served as a honey-pot for thieves, and could be targeted repeatedly, particularly after the land had been ploughed.

The axes are to go on display at the Buckinghamshire County Museum

Police say some thieves have formed loosely-connected networks to trade information, often in online forums, about new and vulnerable sites. Ch Insp Mark Harrison, from Kent Police, said farmers had been threatened after confronting groups of men trespassing on their land at night. Sir Barry Cunliffe, English Heritage chairman, called for better guidance for police on the impact of nighthawking and a national database to detail the extent of the problem. He said nighthawkers were "thieves of valuable archaeological knowledge that belongs to us all".

Two men and their metal detectors

It could be the very sword which belonged to the first Viking ever to settle in the Isle of Man and it has recently been unearthed in the North of the Isle of Man by two men armed with metal detectors.The story the sword has to tell is currently being unravelled by experts at Manx

Curator of Archaeology, Alison Fox says the sword dates back to about 900 AD.
“We are looking at something around 11 hundred years old. Obviously we haven’t got the whole sword but what we do have is the most decorated part which tells us when and where it hails from, probably Norway.”“We have had Viking swords before, this is the 13th recorded find, but we have never had anything in bronze or with this level of decoration before.”

“The sword is on temporary display in the reception area of the Manx Museum in Douglas but we are hoping to make it a permanent part of our new Viking gallery along with some others which have been found on the island.”Further research will be carried out before the artifact can be permanently displayed in the new Viking and Medieval Gallery at the museum but in the meantime the sword fragments are on display in the foyer of the Manx Museum.
Dan Crowe and Robert Farrer are the dedicated pair who recently discovered the sword.

Question: How did you come across this great find?
(Dan) We had not searched in this particular field before but Robert had done some research which showed that there might be finds there.So we got permission to go on and within the hour Robert was walking over to me with this wonderful sword pommel in his hand, which we knew was Viking just by its style and its decoration. We knew straight away we had found something special and we were very excited with the find.

We continued to search in the surrounding area and found the other parts of the sword.
How many pieces in total did you find?

(Dan) There are currently five pieces, the pommel, the upper hand guard and three fragments of the lower hand guard.
Is it your best find to date?
(Robert) It is superb. It is definitely one of our best finds.
After talking to the experts it is 10th century possibly earlier in a Norwegian style which links it to the Vikings. It might even have come from Norway.
Did you know immediately when you dug it up it was something special?
(Robert) I have been a metal detector for over 33 years and my instincts told me it was a pommel and when we looked at the decoration it was clear it was Viking in style.

It is now on display at the Manx Museum and is set to be a main part of their new Viking exhibition. How do you feel about that?
(Dan) We have just been to look at it in the museum and we are very happy to have had a part in its discovery.

College installs metal detectors

Metal detectors are being introduced at a college close to where three people were stabbed during a fight.The victims, all aged 18, were injured outside Havering College in Hornchurch, east London, last month. Head teacher Noel Ottley said more than £1m was being spent on increasing security and scanners were expected to be in place by Christmas. On Wednesday, mayor Ken Livingstone said schools should install metal detectors to discourage knife carrying.

Youth workers

Mr Ottley said detector wands were being introduced as part of a package of measures which included police
community support officers patrolling the grounds. He said: "We can identify if anybody is carrying a weapon."We are also engaging more youth workers to retain students on the site during lunchtimes so they don't go into the local community making disruption for shops and neighbours." Sixteen people, aged from late teens to over 40, were arrested after the brawl outside Havering College and bailed until later this month. Knives were recovered by police near the scene of the fight and CCTV footage of the area is being examined by officers. Havering College, which has about 14,000 students and offers further and higher education courses, confirmed one of the victims was a student there.

The airport-style detectors will not be used randomly

School introduces metal detectors

A school has introduced hand-held metal detectors in an attempt to prevent students carrying knives.

Tollbar Business and Enterprise College in New Waltham, near Grimsby, has used the airport-style devices "a couple of times", principal David Hampson said.

"We use them if we have any kind of suspicion. We do not use them at random," he said.

Jayne Walmsley, whose son Luke was stabbed to death at another school in Lincolnshire, has welcomed the move.

The North East Lincolnshire school has stressed it does not have a knife or drug problem and said the handheld scanners had been bought as a precaution.

Mr Hampson explained: "They were bought to search children for any metal object including mobile phones, a blade or any foil that could be used to wrap a drug-related substance."

The college's vice-principal, David Riden, said the device would only be used "on a very selective basis" and only after suspicions had been raised that a student was carrying something that was banned from school.

"It would confirm our suspicions one way or the other," Mr Riden added.

If a student refused to be scanned by the detector, his or her parents would be asked to remove the student from the school.

Knives campaign

Luke Walmsley was murdered at Birkbeck School in North Somercotes 14 miles away from Tollbar, in November 2003.

Since Luke's death, Mrs Walmsley, from Cleethorpes, has campaigned for a minimum five-year sentence for people found to be carrying knives.

"I hope more schools follow this lead," she said.

"I would rather have kids searched randomly so no one can claim to be victimised but this is a big step in the right direction."

Although the detectors will be used to scan for knives, Mr Hampson revealed they had been largely catching children with mobile phones, which are banned on school grounds.

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