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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 yesterday, officers taught pupils the sadly necessary skills which could save the life of someone who has been stabbed or shot.
Year nine pupils at the City of London Academy pictured being taught how to treat stab and gunshot wounds by a City of London Police officer
Officers (pictured) taught pupils the sadly necessary skills which could save the life of someone who has been stabbed or shot
A police officer at the scene in Comeragh Road, West Kensington, west London, on April 2 after a man was shot dead on Easter Monday
The City of London Police said the children were taught how to 'provide emergency treatment to someone suffering from a stab wound or ballistic injury' and how to stop bleeding in those situations.
The presentation that officers gave to pupils included a slide on 'Exposure and Evacuation'. The slide showed a picture Jack Nicholson as horror villain Jack Torrance from 1980 Kubrick film The Shining after he had frozen to death after being left in the cold all night.
Susan Hall told MailOnline: 'We shouldn't have to teach 13 and 14 year olds how to treat stab wounds, but that is the sad reality of
