A former Queensland police superintendent says the amount of weapons seized as part of a huge blitz on the Surfers Paradise foreshadows a worrying trend.

Police have wrapped up a 12 month trial using metal detectors to catch people on the Gold Coast carrying weapons.

It was launched after a series of fatal stabbings.

Police say they caught people allegedly carrying meat cleavers, tomahawks, swords and knives.

133 weapons were seized, 336 people were charged and there’s been a significant drop in woundings and armed robberies.

Former police superintendent Jim Keogh, who led a bikie blitz during his career, says it’s a success to get the weapons off the street.

“What’s worrying … look at the type of weapons they have seized and the amount of them,” he told Scott Emerson.

“You’ve got this culture of bringing weapons into Surfers Paradise.

“What frightens me is you remove the weapons, which we are doing, the police are removing the weapons, but look what we have seen recently police have been assaulted, seriously assaulted … the culture of violence, albeit with the removal of weapons, is continuing.”

He says it has to be stamped out.

“If you’re going to wand, wand them when they are coming into the precinct, have the boots on the ground to turn them around to say that behaviour is unacceptable here.”

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