(MENAFN) Some 300 extra officers are being deployed in badly hit parts of London amid a spike in deadly violence.
It comes after it emerged Metropolitan Police has opened 55 murder investigations in London this year and there were six non-fatal stabbings from Thursday night into Friday morning in the capital.
The rising wave of violent crime meant the number of suspected murders in March was higher than that of New York.
On Friday a 30-year-old was arrested in Hackney over the murder of Tanesha Melbourne-Blake, 17, who was gunned down in Tottenham on Sunday.
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