§ Mr. Corbynasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions in the last year authority has been given for the use of firearms by police in each police authority.
§ Mr. Giles ShawThe table shows the number of operations involving criminals or other persons known or believed to be armed in which firearms were issued to the police, and the number of occasions on which they were fired, in 1984.
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Police force Number of operations in respect of which firearms were issued Number of operations in which firearms were fired Avon and Somerset 17 Bedfordshire 10 Cambridgeshire 8 Cheshire 13 Cleveland 8 City of London 4 Cumbria 5 Derbyshire 8 Devon and Cornwall 28 Dorset 27 Durham 10 1 Essex 44 1 Gloucestershire 7 Greater Manchester 52 Hampshire 23 1 Hertfordshire 27 Humberside 56 Kent 37 Lancashire 35 Leicestershire 8 Lincolnshire 2 Merseyside 61 Metropolitan 1,838 3 Norfolk 13
Police force Number of operations in respect of which firearms were issued Number of operations in which firearms were fired Northamptonshire 6 Northumbria 15 North Yorkshire 14 Nottinghamshire 10 South Yorkshire 13 Staffordshire 5 Suffolk 17 Surrey 32 Sussex 51 Thames Valley 17 Warwickshire 8 West Mercia 12 West Midlands 17 West Yorkshire 78 Wiltshire 12 Dyfed Powys 3 Gwent 2 North Wales 10 South Wales 4 TOTAL 2,667 6 Note: These figures relate only to police operations involving criminals or other persons known or believed to be armed. They do not include the issue of firearms for protection purposes or the issue and use of firearms to destroy injured or dangerous animals.