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Table 5 Shot gun certificates : Applications for new and renewals (granted and refused); cancellations, revocations and certificates on issue at 31 December 2008, by police force area
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 | 93 | - | 80 | - | 43 | 1 | 2,210 | 765 |
|---|
Dumfries & Galloway | 132 | 6 | 176 | - | 64 | 4 | 4,320 | 2,913 |
|---|
Fife | 121 | 1 | 132 | - | 41 | 6 | 2,713 | 753 |
|---|
Grampian | 271 | 3 | 386 | 1 | 180 | 5 | 9,029 | 1,687 |
|---|
Lothian & Borders | 373 | 7 | 400 | 1 | 160 | 17 | 7,994 | 868 |
|---|
Northern | 272 | 5 | 636 | 1 | 153 | 8 | 8,816 | 3,087 |
|---|
Strathclyde | 290 | 7 | 714 | - | 160 | 5 | 9,060 | 410 |
|---|
Tayside | 164 | 4 | 440 | 1 | 106 | 18 | 5,880 | 1,492 |
|---|
All forces | 1,716 | 33 | 2,964 | 4 | 907 | 64 | 50,022 | 972 |
|---|
(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 2007.
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