North Yorkshire Police say that on Saturday night (September 23) they carried out Operation Search in York city centre.
A police spokesman said: "Operation Search uses a variety of different police resources including; high and low visibility officers and the dog support unit.
"This is a proactive police response, which aims to target knife carriers and drug users in the night time economy.
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