Home Secretary Sajid Javid unveiled the new Asbo-style orders designed to tackle spiralling knife violence on Thursday.
The Knife Crime Prevention Orders could be issued to children as young as 12 and could also make suspects abide by curfews and geographical restrictions.
Violating the orders could land an offender in prison for up to two years.
Nims Obunge, a pastor and the chief executive of the Peace Alliance told Premier he doubted if any positive difference would be made.
Speaking on Premier’s News Hour, he said: “There is never a single premise to deal with what we are seeing across our communities.
“And to assume that addressing it from the context of social media will finally cut down the knife crime I think – it maybe could be a pie in the sky but at the same time it’s not something that we should ignore.”
Knife possession rose by almost a third in five years, the latest figures show and concerns have been repeatedly raised that material posted on the internet fuels feuds that spill out into violence on the streets.
Police will apply for the orders in the courts and, if approved, they will last for a maximum of two years, with reviews carried out after 12 months for adults or more frequently for juveniles.
Toyin Onibokyun is a Christian and founder of Youth Against Crime Not Crime Against Youth.
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