Annex A
SHOTGUN AND AIR WEAPONS OFFENCES BY FORCE,
1995-98
|
| Total offences
| Average no
shotguns
covered by
|
Urban/Rural
| Per 100,000 population
| Shotgun offences per 100,000
shotguns covered
|
| Shotguns
| Air weapons | certificates
| Ranking | Shotguns
| Air weapons | by certificates
|
|
| Dyfed Powys | 33
| 151 | 36,699
| 10 | 6.9
| 31.5 | 89.9
|
| North Wales | 24
| 385 | 28,399
| 29 | 3.7
| 58.6 | 84.5
|
| Lincolnshire | 20
| 302 | 32,391
| 33 | 3.2
| 48.5 | 61.7
|
| North Yorkshire | 28
| 382 | 38,147
| 35 | 3.8
| 51.5 | 73.4
|
|
| Group 1—most rural | 105
| 1,220 | 135,636
| | 4.2
| 48.8 | 77.4
|
|
| Suffolk | 11
| 122 | 40,348
| 40 | 1.6
| 18.2 | 27.3
|
| Cumbria | 7 |
189 | 21,763
| 41 | 1.4
| 38.3 | 32.2
|
| Devon and Cornwall | 22
| 298 | 77,969
| 42 | 1.4
| 19.1 | 28.2
|
| Norfolk | 20
| 120 | 55,304
| 42 | 2.5
| 15.2 | 36.2
|
| Wiltshire | 10
| 143 | 27,289
| 42 | 1.7
| 23.6 | 36.6
|
| Cambridgeshire | 61
| 334 | 31,976
| 46 | 8.5
| 46.4 | 190.8
|
| Gloucestershire | 21
| 289 | 26,330
| 50 | 3.8
| 51.9 | 79.8
|
| Durham | 24 |
248 | 13,510
| 52 | 3.9
| 40.8 | 177.6
|
| West Mercia | 50
| 289 | 65,218
| 53 | 4.4
| 25.4 | 76.7
|
|
| Group 2 | 226
| 2,032 | 359,707
| | 3.2
| 28.5 | 62.8
|
|
| Northamptonshire | 34
| 478 | 19,348
| 61 | 5.5
| 77.6 | 175.7
|
| Avon and Somerset | 48
| 707 | 47,378
| 65 | 3.2
| 47.5 | 101.3
|
| Derbyshire | 54
| 921 | 29,136
| 65 | 5.6
| 94.9 | 185.3
|
| Gwent | 23 |
422 | 14,653
| 65 | 4.1
| 75.7 | 157.0
|
| Leicestershire | 37
| 291 | 25,119
| 65 | 4.0
| 31.3 | 147.3
|
| Thames Valley | 90
| 1,027 | 71,367
| 65 | 4.3
| 48.9 | 126.1
|
| Warwickshire | 13
| 248 | 20,282
| 65 | 2.6
| 48.9 | 64.1
|
| Bedfordshire | 55
| 278 | 14,127
| 66 | 9.9
| 49.9 | 389.3
|
| Dorset | 20 |
200 | 24,991
| 67 | 2.9
| 28.9 | 80.0
|
| Humberside | 58
| 1,956 | 24,285
| 67 | 6.6
| 221.5 | 238.8
|
| Essex | 66 |
914 | 45,542
| 68 | 4.3
| 59.6 | 144.9
|
| Hampshire | 28
| 444 | 47,025
| 68 | 1.6
| 25.1 | 59.5
|
| Sussex | 57 |
506 | 47,400
| 68 | 3.8
| 33.8 | 120.3
|
|
| Group 3 | 583
| 8,392 | 430,653
| | 4.1
| 59.5 | 135.4
|
|
| Kent | 119 |
1,052 | 45,793
| 70 | 7.6
| 66.8 | 259.9
|
| Cheshire | 15
| 263 | 28,544
| 72 | 1.5
| 26.7 | 52.6
|
| Staffordshire | 33
| 764 | 31,565
| 72 | 3.1
| 72.0 | 104.5
|
| Surrey | 25 |
149 | 24,390
| 74 | 3.2
| 18.9 | 102.5
|
| South Wales | 40
| 1,189 | 21,627
| 76 | 3.2
| 95.9 | 185.0
|
| Nottinghamshire | 77
| 1,526 | 23,442
| 77 | 7.5
| 147.9 | 328.5
|
| Lancashire | 47
| 441 | 27,712
| 79 | 3.3
| 30.9 | 169.6
|
| South Yorkshire | 95
| 1,284 | 16,404
| 79 | 7.3
| 98.5 | 579.1
|
| West Yorkshire | 162
| 3,193 | 24,065
| 80 | 7.7
| 151.1 | 673.2
|
| Hertfordshire | 26
| 55 | 21,809
| 81 | 3.0
| 6.3 | 119.2
|
| Northumbria | 165
| 966 | 19,817
| 81 | 11.6
| 67.8 | 832.6
|
| Cleveland | 29
| 653 | 5,212
| 83 | 5.2
| 117.4 | 556.4
|
|
| Group 4 | 833
| 11,535 | 290,380
| | 5.8
| 80.2 | 286.9
|
|
| Greater Manchester | 343
| 1,365 | 21,435
| 97 | 13.3
| 53.0 | 1,600.2
|
| Merseyside | 122
| 2,098 | 8,413
| 97 | 8.7
| 148.9 | 1,450.1
|
| City of London | 1
| 2 | 59
| 99 | 19.2
| 38.4 | 1,694.9
|
| Metropolitan Police | 696
| 3,194 | 62,600
| 99 | 9.1
| 41.6 | 1,111.8
|
| West Midlands | 227
| 1,670 | 20,840
| 99 | 8.6
| 63.5 | 1,089.3
|
|
| Group 5—Most urban | 1,389
| 8,329 | 113,347
| | 9.7
| 58.2 | 1,225.4
|
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