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Recorded Crimes and Offences Involving Firearms, Scotland, 2001

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RECORDED CRIMES AND OFFENCES INVOLVING FIREARMS, SCOTLAND, 2001

Crimes and offences recorded by the police in which a firearm was alleged to have been used as a percentage of all crimes and offences recorded for selected crimes, Scotland, 1992 - 2001

Table 2

Percentage (1)

Crime/offence

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

Homicide (2)

4.3

6.6

8.0

8.0

18.5

6.3

7.0

4.7

1.9

5.1

Attempted murder (2)

6.8

8.1

6.7

6.8

6.8

3.5

3.0

3.2

1.4

4.2

Assault

0.7

0.6

0.7

0.7

0.6

0.5

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

Robbery

7.5

7.1

7.0

4.5

4.3

3.1

2.7

2.5

3.1

2.7

Vandalism

0.7

0.7

0.6

0.7

0.6

0.5

0.4

0.4

0.3

0.3

(1) Some of the figures in this table are based on fewer than 100 recorded cases.
(2) The 1996 figures for homicide and attempted murders include the Dunblane incident which occurred on 13 March 1996.
The figures for 1996 excluding the Dunblane incident would have been 6.8 per cent and 4.6 per cent respectively.

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