§ Sir Richard Glynasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes involving the use of firearms were known to the police in 1964 and in each subsequent year; how many of these crimes involved wounding by shooting in each year; and how many of these crimes involved killing by shooting in each year.
§ Mr. TaverneThe numbers of indictable offences involving firearms known to the police in England and Wales in the years from 1964 were as follows:
1964 731 1965 1,140 1966 1,511 1967 2,337 (provisional) The provisional number of indictable offences known to the police in which firearms were actually fired, presented, or used for striking the victim, was 791 in 1967. Of these, 351 offences involved wounding by shooting and a further 45 offences involved killing by shooting. Corresponding figures for previous years are not available.