The Home Office does not collect centrally information on knife amnesty initiatives led by local police forces.
A national knife amnesty, which ran from 24 May 2006 to 30 June 2006, encouraged people to dispose of knives and other weapons in secure bins at police stations throughout England and Wales. A total of 89,964 knives were handed over during the programme, according to figures compiled by forces in England and Wales. A table of returns from each force follows.
Force Domestic Non Dom Weapons Of interest Total Avon Somerset 1,510 634 129 69 2,342 Bedfordshire 503 172 45 42 762 Cambridgeshire 982 188 465 0 1,635 Cheshire 1,241 457 287 55 2,040 City of London 38 0 4 18 60 Cleveland 729 224 159 41 1,153 Cumbria 1,082 146 46 27 1,301 Derbyshire 2,257 91 623 24 2,995 Dorset 1,029 275 186 8 1,498 Durham 593 326 124 19 1,062 Dyfed Powys 470 188 121 14 793 Devon Cornwall 2,626 601 375 150 3,752 Essex 1,517 446 209 51 2,223 Gloucestershire 702 309 50 0 1,061 GMP 1,172 403 276 14 1,865 Gwent 1,263 419 187 67 1,936 Hampshire 3,209 841 529 57 4,636 Herts 1,659 493 20 22 2,194 Humberside 877 152 261 23 1,313 Kent 2,603 704 421 0 3,807 Lancashire 948 389 187 1 1,525 Leicestershire 950 158 62 0 1,170 Lincs 731 422 260 35 1,448 Merseyside 1,142 630 33 0 1,888 Met1 0 0 0 0 9,145 Norfolk2 (383) (104) (18) (5) 1,723 North Wales 1,152 392 177 10 1,731 North Yorkshire 940 285 346 53 1,624 Northants 1,312 174 140 0 1,626 Northumbria 1,576 667 306 57 2,606 Nottinghamshire 1,086 419 127 17 1,649 South Wales 1,351 505 143 23 2,022 South Yorks 1,143 68 379 42 1,631 Staffordshire 1,200 524 222 64 2,010 Suffolk 975 298 171 0 1,444 Surrey 959 252 89 11 1,311 Sussex 2,479 936 253 89 3,757 Thames Valley 2,475 1,235 620 0 4,330 Warwickshire 494 179 147 36 856 West Mercia 1,523 440 164 0 2,127 West Midlands 1,979 298 510 451 3,238 West Yorkshire 851 332 175 17 1,375 Wiltshire 894 177 120 9 1,200 Total3 52,222 16,595 9,148 1,658 89,864 1 MPS has supplied a total figure only. 2 Breakdown figures for Norfolk relate to items surrendered in first week only. 3 Breakdown figures do not equal final total due to footnote 2.