More than 3,000 young people across Merseyside will be taking part in a new project this week, aimed at early intervention and education around knife and gun crime.

Named Operation Prospect, it has been developed by Merseyside Police’s Safer Schools Co-ordinator, Faye Smith and Matrix Firearms Officer Robert Ingleby.

The project aims to highlight the dangers of carrying weapons and being involved in serious violence. It challenges thinking, dispels myths and removes the glamour that is often associated with criminality.