Police are holding a three-month weapons surrender POLICE are holding a three-month surrender for people to hand over weapons ahead of a change in the law. Along with the Government, Merseyside Police says it is determined to protect the public from serious violence, which includes targeting those carrying and using dangerous weapons and removing them from our streets. The Home Office Weapon Surrender and Compensation scheme started on Thursday and will run for three months, encouraging everyone that owns a weapon, legally or not to hand it in to officers before the law changes and makes it an offence to own weapons, now including flick and gravity knives.