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No guns turned in during amnesty, police issue warning

26 March 2026
This content originally appeared on St. Lucia Times.
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Police on Thursday provided an update on the gun amnesty, a programme that allowed individuals to surrender firearms without penalty, which ran for seven days during the last two weeks of January.Assistant Commissioner of Police with responsibility for the Central Division, Luke Defreitas, revealed that “no guns were turned in,” but the force does not view this as a failure.