QUARTERLY UPDATE

The Home Office produces Quarterly Updates on Crime in England and Wales.  These include data on firearms offences (excluding airguns).

For "A Guide to and Review of Home Office Gun Crime Statistics" see Hales (2006)

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The latest Update was published in July 2010.  In the Year to March 2010 there were a provisional 7995 offences involving firearms (excluding airguns), indicating a 3% decrease from the previous year.

Handguns were used in 3705 offences, a decrease of 13 per cent from 2008/09

Shotguns were used in 585 offences, a decrease of 5 per cent from 2008/09

Imitation weapons were used in 1486 offences, a decrease of 2 per cent from 2008/09

There were a total of 1901 crimes in which firearms were reported to have caused injury, 8 percent more than in 2008/09.  Firearms caused 39 Fatal Injuries, the same number as in the previous year.  There were 336 offences in which a gun was fired and which resulted in Serious Injury (a 5 percent increase) and 1526 which resulted in Slight Injury (a 9 percent increase).  More than three quarters of firearm offences involved no physical injury, although there were 5029 instances in which they were used to Threaten (four percent fewer than in 2008/09).

 

Other includes CS gas, disguised firearms, machine guns, pepper spray, stun guns and other specified weapons (majority are paintball guns)

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> See Crime in England and Wales 2009/2010 - July 2010 - Statistical Bulletin 12/10

> See Quarterly Update to December 2009 - April 2010 - Statistical Bulletin 07/10

> See Quarterly Update to September 2009 - January 2010 - Statistical Bulletin 02/10

> See Quarterly Update to June 2009 - October 2009 - Statistical Bulletin 15/09

> See Quarterly Update to March 2009 - July 2009 - Statistical Bulletin 11/09 vol.1

> See Quarterly Update to December 2008 - April 2009 - Statistical Bulletin 06/09

> See Quarterly Update to September 2008 - January 2009 - Statistical Bulletin 01/09

 

> See the Annual Statistics for England and Wales