Firearm Offences (888A/21)
Request
1. Since March 2020 to the most recent date available, how many offenses were recorded by your force in which a firearm or firearms were used?
a. If possible, please can the number of offences be broken down by category? E.g. Murder, GBH, robbery, assault
b. If possible, please can the type of weapon be provided (if known)
2. Since March 2020 to the most recent date available, please provide the offences recorded by your police force in which firearms were reported to have been used by degree of injury or damage? E.g. Fatal injury, required hospital treatment, no injury, damage to property, or equivalent as recorded by your force.
Response
Please find attached (888A_21_attachment1.pdf and 888A_21_attachment2.xlsx).
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.