Firearms: Amnesties

(asked on 16th July 2015) - View Source

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.


Answered by
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John Hayes
This question was answered on 7th September 2015

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

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