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Table 2
Firearm certificates : Applications for new and renewals (granted and refused); variations, cancellations, revocations and certificates on issue at 31 December 2007, by police force area
Number & Rate
Police force area | Applications | Cancell -
ations (2) | Revo -
cations (2) | Firearm
certificates
on issue at
31 December | Firearm
certificates
on issue at
31 December
per 100,000 popn (3) |
|---|
New
firearm certificate | Renewal of
firearm certificate | Variation of
firearm certificate |
|---|
Granted | Refused | Granted | Refused | Fee (1)
Charged | No Fee
Charged |
|---|
Central | 32 | 1 | 224 | - | 39 | 30 | 53 | 1 | 888 | 310 |
|---|
Dumfries & Galloway | 86 | 1 | 545 | - | 65 | 101 | 112 | 7 | 2,118 | 1,431 |
|---|
Fife | 75 | - | 250 | - | 25 | 63 | 115 | 1 | 1,084 | 302 |
|---|
Grampian | 235 | - | 1,024 | 1 | 184 | 118 | 202 | 8 | 4,531 | 855 |
|---|
Lothian & Borders | 200 | 3 | 907 | 1 | 142 | 126 | 174 | 15 | 3,619 | 397 |
|---|
Northern | 237 | 2 | 1,808 | 1 | 284 | 520 | 273 | 14 | 7,097 | 2,505 |
|---|
Strathclyde | 189 | 2 | 1,140 | 4 | 157 | 208 | 220 | 5 | 3,663 | 166 |
|---|
Tayside | 140 | - | 736 | - | 151 | 305 | 178 | 4 | 3,056 | 780 |
|---|
All forces | 1,194 | 9 | 6,634 | 7 | 1,047 | 1,471 | 1,327 | 55 | 26,056 | 509 |
|---|
(1) A fee is charged where a variation increases the number of firearms authorised by the certificate.
(2) 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 firearm.
(3) Population as at mid-June 2006.
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