§ 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 97W in each subsequent year; how many of these crimes involved wounding by shooting in each year; and how many involved killing by shooting in each year.
§ Mr. Elystan MorganThe numbers of indictable offences involving firearms known to the police in England and Wales from 1964 are as follows: 1964, 731; 1965, 1,140; 1966, 1,511; 1967, 2,337; 1968, 2,500. The number of these offences in which firearms were used of presented was 791 in 1967. Of these 351 involved wounding by shooting, and a further 45 involved killing by shooting. The corresponding figures for 1968 were 875, 352 and 40, respectively.