Table 5: Shot gun certificates : Applications for new and renewals (granted and refused);
cancellations, revocations and certificates on issue at 31 December 2005, by police force area (1)
Number & Rate
Police force area | Applications | Cancellations (1) | Revocations (1) | Shot gun certificates on issue at 31 December | Shot gun certificates on issue at 31 December per 100,000 popn (2) |
|---|
New shot gun certificate | Renewal of shot gun certificate |
|---|
Granted | Refused | Granted | Refused |
|---|
Central | 61 | 1 | 587 | - | 159 | 6 | 2,272 | 798 |
|---|
Dumfries & Galloway | 114 | 1 | 1,257 | - | 238 | 4 | 4,286 | 2,889 |
|---|
Fife (3) | 121 | 1 | 143 | 1 | 289 | 6 | 2,933 | 822 |
|---|
Grampian | 299 | 5 | 2,278 | 2 | 600 | 5 | 9,194 | 1,748 |
|---|
Lothian & Borders | 345 | 4 | 2,039 | 1 | 438 | 12 | 8,055 | 893 |
|---|
Northern | 256 | 5 | 2,600 | 2 | 547 | 4 | 8,932 | 3,172 |
|---|
Strathclyde | 286 | 3 | 2,395 | 2 | 707 | 17 | 9,493 | 430 |
|---|
Tayside | 322 | 2 | 1,835 | - | 249 | 6 | 5,945 | 1,525 |
|---|
All forces | 1,804 | 22 | 13,134 | 8 | 3,227 | 60 | 51,110 | 1,003 |
|---|
(1) Cancellation of a certificate is undertaken by the holder; revocations are at the authority of the Chief Constable and occur in instances where it is believed the holder should no longer be allowed to possess a shotgun.
(2) Population as at mid-June 2005.
(3) Fife police were unable to supply data for 2005, so 2004 data is included instead. See Annex Note 2.