The NSW Police Force today formally announced the Commercial Explosives Amnesty which has been put in place for six months in NSW.
The amnesty commenced on 15 March 2017 and will end on 14 September 2017.
The aim of the Commercial Explosive Amnesty is to provide a safe avenue for members of the community to hand in explosives and related hazardous materials to police.
The amnesty on commercial explosives, announced on Tuesday in Sydney, is the first of its kind in Australia and NSW Police hope it will remove dangerous material from the community.
“People have these things, they hang onto them because they don’t know what to do with them,” NSW police counter-terrorism and special tactics commander assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch told reporters.
“These things can be safely disposed of with assistance of our rescue and bomb-disposal experts without fear of anyone ending up in front of a magistrate,” Mr Murdoch said.
Those who have explosives, including gun powder and nitroglycerine, should not move them as explosives become unpredictable as they age, he said.
Eight call-outs had been made to police for explosives since March, when the amnesty started, with one instance including “highly unstable and very, very dangerous” explosives on a property in southern NSW believed to be linked to the Snowy Hydro scheme.
“The Amnesty does not authorise the transportation of explosives and it is an offence to do so.”
“The Amnesty is limited to the possession and storage of explosives. It does not authorise any person to move or transport explosives without the required licence or security clearance.”
The types of explosives covered by the amnesty includes;
Black powder
Nitro-glycerine based explosives
Watergel and Emulsion explosives
Detonating cord
Detonators
And other commercial explosive items
The amnesty runs until September 14, 2017.
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