Countywide weapons amnesty

Secure bins will remain in place at police stations in Lincoln, Skegness, Grantham, Boston and Spalding during lockdown but please only use them if:

• You have found a weapon in a public place while you are out of the house for an essential purpose
• You have made an essential journey to somewhere very near one of these police stations and have a weapon you’d like to discard.

Alternatively if you have come across a weapon that does need handing in please call us on 101.

If the item could be used as a weapon, for example an old kitchen knife, please store the item safely and the bins will still be in place after lockdown for people to use.

In less than three weeks since its launch, over 100 weapons have now been handed in at police stations across the county as part of our weapons amnesty.

116 weapons have been handed in so far and this figure is constantly rising. Amongst the weapons handed in are kitchen knives, bowie knives, machetes and cleavers.

Detective Inspector Dave Harrop says:

“This is really promising and I’m delighted so many people have taken the time to discard knives which could be used as weapons if they were to fall into the wrong hands.

“There is still just under two months to take part in our amnesty, so please do take advantage of this if you have an item that could be considered a weapon and drop it into one of our secure bins.”