Police are set to step up their patrols across the Gold Coast’s safe night precincts in a bid to combat knife crime.

Officers are today launching Operation Uniform Arminda, a high-visibility four-day operation that will see police use metal-detecting wands in Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach.

The wanding blitz will begin today and continue until Sunday, November 13, with party-goers warned those concealing a weapon will be caught.

The weekend crackdown is the second phase of the operation, with police conducting a similar wanding blitz last month.

Over the four days, 588 people were wanded within the Safe Night Precincts and three knives were located resulting in three arrests.

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It comes after the State Government yesterday confirmed the wanding trial will be expanded to all safe night precincts in Queensland.

They will also be used on public transport following a successful trial in Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach.

The initial trial was launched in 2021, following the stabbing death of Gold Coast teenager Jack Beasley in 2019.

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