Member

My Amendment 212 is about the removal of the prohibition of straight truncheons. My Amendment 213 would exclude agricultural tools from the curved bladed sword definition. I also think that we should review the items in sub-paragraphs 1(q) and 1(r) of the Schedule to the 1988 Act: straight, side-handled or friction-lock truncheons and curved swords. Section 141 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 was intended to prohibit weapons of a more serious nature. As one or two of us will know, the bobbies’ truncheon of “Heartbeat”, which we carried at the beginning of our careers, hardly passed the test of being a very dangerous weapon.