3,700 KNIVES HANDED IN

Sussex Police collected more than 3,700 knives and other weapons during the five-week national knives amnesty, which ran until the end of June.
By The Newsroom
Published 5th Jul 2006, 16:27 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 22:42 BST

Thirty two sealed bins, placed at police stations across the Force area, have been opened this week and their contents checked and counted.

They have included a variety of weapons such as ornamental knives, two Tarantula weapons - spider shaped with blades as the legs - small axes and much more.

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Rodney Ash, Firearms & Explosives Manager for the Force said: "It's obviously good news that so many knives and potentially lethal weapons have been removed from the streets of Sussex.

"The number collected compares very favourably with the last knives amnesty in Sussex ten years ago when 1,412 weapons were collected.

"But now the amnesty is over, there is no excuse for anyone to be carrying a knife in public. Officers will deal robustly with anyone they find in possession of a knife or similar weapon."

In East Sussex the total number of knives handed were:

Hastings 179, Bexhill 327, Battle 82, Rye 65, Eastbourne 269, Lewes 67, Newhaven 27, Seaford 117, Hailsham 146, Crowborough 28, Uckfield 75, Heathfield 1. Total = 1,383.

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