Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the date was of the most recent gun amnesty in each police force area in England; and how many firearms were handed-in in each such amnesty.
Following the firearms surrenders in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands in 2013 and 2014, the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) co-ordinated further such activities in the majority of the remaining force areas of England and Wales between 29 September and 21 November 2014. The only exception was Wiltshire where a firearms surrender is planned to take place later this year. The dates and numbers of weapons handed in are set out in the table below. Items surrendered include air weapons, stun guns, blank firers and CS sprays.
Police Force Firearm Surrenders:
Date of Surrender | Force | Total Number Firearms Surrendered |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Avon & Somerset | 64 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Bedfordshire | 66 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Cambridgeshire | 141 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Cheshire | 46 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Cleveland | 33 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Cumbria | 131 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Derbyshire | 172 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Devon & Cornwall | 444 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Durham | 34 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Dorset | 93 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Essex | 124 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Gloucestershire | 38 |
12-27 July 2014 | Greater Manchester | 225 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Hampshire | 105 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Hertfordshire | 234 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Humberside | 53 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Kent | 82 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Lancashire | 140 |
21 Sept-7 Oct 2013 | Leicestershire | 138 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Lincolnshire | 132 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Merseyside | 103 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | MPS | 355 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Norfolk | 504 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | North Yorkshire | 138 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Northamptonshire | 195 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Northumbria | 67 |
10-21 November 2013 | Nottinghamshire | 231 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | South Yorkshire | 54 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Staffordshire | 208 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Suffolk | 382 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Surrey | 50 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Sussex | 282 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | TVP | 221 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | West Mercia & | 480 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | Warwickshire | |
19 July-2 August 2014 | West Midlands | 163 |
29 Sept to 21 Nov 2014 | West Yorkshire | 89 |
Anticipated late 2015 | Wiltshire | 0 |
TOTAL | 6017 | |
Source: National Ballistics Intelligence Service, 'Operation MAGPIE – Firearms Surrender Autumn/Winter 2014', published May 2015 |