Operational Policing

Firearms

This page contains links to publications about police use of firearms and firearms licensing.

Police Use of Firearms 

• Police use of firearms statistics 2005/06 for England and Wales
• Code of Practice: Police Use of Firearms and Less Lethal Weapons  

Firearms Licensing

• Firearms Law: Guidance to the Police 2002
• Firearms Security Handbook 2005
• Firearms Security: A Brief Guide
• Downloadable application form for authority to possess etc firearms under Section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968
• Downloadable application form for approval of a rifle or pistol club
• Air Weapons: A brief guide to safety
• Ministerial Statement – 15 July 2003
  Summarises the outcome of the amnesty
• Firearms and Ammunition handed in during the Firearms Amnesty – 2003 
  Final tally of relinquished items, by police force
• Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003: Firearms – January 2004 (new window)
  Home Office circular 01/2004 to the police describing the firearms provisions of the 2003 Act
• Implementation of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 – February 2004 (new window)
  Home Office circular 07/2004 including details of the new 5-year minimum sentence for certain firearms offences
• Ban on Self-contained Gas Cartridge Weapons: What it means for you – January 2004
  Advice on how to comply with the recent ban on this type of air weapon

See Also

• Citizen-Focused Policing
• Neighbourhood Policing
• Policing Priority Areas
• Race and Diversity