Police use of firearms

Statistics on police use of firearms in the 43 Home Office funded police forces in England and Wales.

It covers information on the number of police firearms operations, operations involving armed response vehicles, the number of incidents in which police firearms were discharged and the number of authorised firearms officers.

Data and Resources

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Landing page
User GuidePDF

User Guide
Data tables April 2013 - March 2014ODS

Data tables April 2013 - March 2014
Data tables April 2014 - March 2015ODS

Data tables April 2014 - March 2015
Data tables April 2015 - March 2016ODS

Data tables April 2015 - March 2016

Additional Info

Field	Value
Last Updated	August 4, 2016, 13:16 (UTC)
Created	April 28, 2016, 10:16 (UTC)
Theme	Crime and justice