Disbelief at ‘sad state of affairs’ as police are brought into schools to teach 13-year-olds how to treat stab and gunshot wounds

Children aged 13 are being taught how to treat stab and gunshot wounds by police officers in school.

The extraordinary class has been taught to year nine pupils in at least one inner city London academy by City of London Police officers.

It coincides with a rise in violent crime in the capital which has seen young people targeted by gangs, the most recent happening on Easter Monday.

Conservative mayoral candidate Susan Hall slammed the lessons as the ‘sad reality of Sadiq Khan’s London where knife crime is up 54 per cent’ as Londoners hit out at the ‘sad state of affairs’.

During the class at the City of London Academy secondary school in Southwark…