i am david jamieson, the police and crime commissionerfor the david jamieson, the police and crime commissionermissioner for the west midlands, and i am very sorry that we are here today on a sunday morning reporting on ita today on a sunday morning reporting on it a dreadful events that happened last night here and at the centre of the premier. can i firstly say that our thoughts today are particular with the families of those, certainly the person who has died, and those people who are injured, and of course the victims and other people may have been traumatised by the events last night. also, can i say a word of thanks to the police. as ever, when there is violence, it is the police who are running towards the problem and is not away from it, and i do commend the officers that were there last night doing their work, as they a lwa ys last night doing their work, as they always do come on a saturday night, keeping us all say. and i also commend the hospitals and the ambulance service as well for the work that they have done as well. i note that the enquiries will be very thorough, and i apprec

the police & crime commissioner for the west midlands, david jamieson, expressed his condolences to the who was killed. our thoughts, firstly, are with the relatives of the man who's died. it must be truly awful for them and friends, as well. and for those who are injured. in total, i understand that a total of eight people were treated by the ambulance service. two of those, i understand, are very seriously ill in hospital, but others have had relatively minor injuries but, nevertheless, a truly terrifying experience and a rare, but appalling, event that happened last night in birmingham. we've just heard that eyewitness evidence from a man who was talking about how calmly these stabbings seem to have taken place. how is it possible to rule out terrorism now when you look and hear about how these stabbings were carried out? well, at the moment, i mean the police are the experts on terrorism. they've made an assessment and they don't think at the moment that it has terrorist connections. however, that view may be moderated in time when the person is apprehended. it may become clearer wh

west midlands police and crime commissioner david jamieson said a rise in violence was ‘almost inevitablee of the pent—up frustration caused by the pandemic. we are well used on a saturday, a friday and saturday night, to activity, but i think what is different is the randomness of this particular event, but also the number of other events that were happening as well and the amount of virus that was happening is actually very, very disturbing. i have been saying for some time in the context of covid—19, that a lot of the pent—up feelings that people have of not being able to get out of, and combine that with people who are now unsure about their future, about their jobs, unsure about their future, about theirjobs, it was almost inevitable that we would see a growth in violence. and i am not saying that this is directly related to that, but nevertheless we are seeing now a growth of violence amongst younger people, particularly younger males, we are seeing that is growing across the region. my fear is that if we don't address that and some of the underlying problems, with some urgency, the

well, we saw david jamieson there, the police & crime commissioner for the west midlands — hejoins usin the city centre last night. can you just bring us up to speed with the number of casualties? one fatality, u nfortu nately casualties? one fatality, unfortunately because of how many injured? well, firstly our thoughts are with the relatives of the man who has died. it must be truly awful for them. and for those who are injured. in total, i understand that a total of eight people were treated by the ambulance service. two of those i understand are very seriously ill in hospital. but others have had sort of relatively minor injuries. but nevertheless a truly terrifying experience, and a rare but appalling events that happened last night in birmingham. we just heard that eyewitness evidence he was talking about how calmly these stabbings seem to have taken place. how is it possible to rule out terrorism now, when you look and hear about how these stabbings were carried out? at the moment, the police are the experts on these, terrorism. they don't think at the moment is that it has ter

david jamieson, thank you for your time here on breakfast.environment is actually home, sweet home to the sand lizard which is, as you mentioned, one of the rarest lizards in the uk and the sand lizard unsurprisingly given its name loves to live among sand dunes and also low land dry heath —— lytham st annes. on wildlife groups of you have mentioned have been working on a top—secret project over the past few years to try to reintroduce them as part of the world and that is because their population has been lost to some parts of the country so yesterday, around here, 50 of the sand lizards were released into the wild and that is part of the project to release about 300 in total and we will meet one of the little fellows later. hopefully! we look forward to be back with you little bit later. they are tiny, obviously, really. i imagined they might be. this is exciting now. do you want to do this one now? after some months, time now to get the news, travel and weather wherever you are. good morning, i'm asad ahmad. public health england are warni

david jamieson is the police and crime commissioner for the west midlands.mmunities. the ideas happening in parts of birmingham is purely nonsense. what seeing is, because we asked seeing people meeting in houses, we are seeing a coronavirus spread. what we have is a bit more clarity. the police also need clarity. the police also need clarity. i'm just looking at the guidelines now which have been released. how are you expecting police to go about it. are you expecting neighbours to phone up and say, we see seven people in the next or garden? the police will not be able to tackle all aspects of this. the news of people have good sense. people will, as they have across the country, police will take exceptional cases. if there are people holding large events with considerable breaking of the rules, the idea that police are going to deal with all of the minor incidents, i'm afraid it'sjust not realistic within the resources they have. the policing approach will continue to apply. engage, explain, encourage and only as a last resort, and force. so you are hoping

sounded like, which happened last night, number of stabbings stop police and crime commissioner david jamiesonre called in on past midnight to reports of a stabbing, this is a part of birmingham for the gay village meet the chinese quarter, filled with clubs and bars, called to a report of one stabbing, they got further reports of other stabbings as well. we don't know yet what the status of any of those casualties are but obviously this was a major incident which has been declared by the police and they are trying to establish exactly what went on last night. we spoke to an eyewitness earlier cara, who spoke of tension is rising during the night which eventually spilled over. birmingham isa night which eventually spilled over. birmingham is a brilliant city, as you know, you work there, i studied there. not something that the city will be particularly proud of this morning? no, absolutely not. like all major cities there are instances of stabbings that take place throughout the year, the police and the police and crime commissioner working hard to try and keep a lid on that but this appears t