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Firearms

Volume 228: debated on Monday 12 July 1993

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many thefts of shotguns there were in 1991 in each police force area (a) from domestic premises and (b) from all premises.

The following table shows, for each police force in England and Wales in 1991, the number of notifiable offences of burglary and theft in which shotguns were reported to have been stolen from domestic and all premises:

Notifiable offences of burglary and theft in which shot guns were stolen
Police force areaDomestic premisesAll premises
Avon and Somerset1520
Bedfordshire48
Cambridgeshire910
Cheshire713
Cleveland34
Cumbria78
Derbyshire56
Devon and Cornwall2735
Dorset22
Durham2124
Essex1417
Gloucestershire46
Greater Manchester45
Hampshire1620
Hertfordshire22
Humberside77
Kent3046
Lancashire1827
Leicestershire713
Lincolnshire69
London, City of
Merseyside67
Metropolitan Police District2228
Norfolk1725
Northamptonshire1011
Northumbria1521
North Yorkshire1218
Nottinghamshire14
South Yorkshire2026
Staffordshire
Suffolk1111
Surrey1720
Sussex1316
Thames Valley2135
Warwickshire610
West Mercia811
West Midlands811
West Yorkshire711
Wiltshire35
Dyfed-Powys36
Gwent
North Wales610
South Wales26
England and Wales416574