Police have no plans for 2008 knife amnesty

Tuesday 8th April 2008, 12:00PM BST.

Some of the knives handed in during 2007′s amnesty.

THERE will be no repeat of the knife amnesty this year. Chief Inspector Peter Dowding, who led the investigation into the murder of James Dean in September 2006, said the initiative was unlikely to take place in the summer.

The knife amnesty was launched in the second week of August and by the end of October 582 offensive weapons had been handed in anonymously. These were crushed and shredded by Guernsey Recycling under instruction from the police.

CI Dowding said last year’s initiative, which saw the placing of amnesty bins at the police station, Checkers at Cobo and the Co-ops in St Martin’s and the Bridge, was seen as a positive move in highlighting the danger of carrying knives.