HL Deb 10 November 1999 vol 606 cc177-8WA
Lord Marlesford

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Which police forces in the United Kingdom hold their registers of privately held firearms and persons holding firearm certificates on (a) the Integrating Business and Information Systems (IBIS) system, (b) the Shogun system, (c) other electronic systems and (d) manual systems. [HL4559]

Lord Bassam of Brighton

This information is not held centrally. I understand that the following forces use or have purchased ORBIS:

  • Bedfordshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cheshire
  • Cleveland
  • Dyfed-Powys
  • Essex
  • Gwent
  • Hampshire
  • Kent
  • Lincolnshire
  • Metropolitan
  • North Wales
  • Northamptonshire
  • Northumbria
  • Nottinghamshire
  • South Wales
  • South Yorkshire
  • Staffordshire
  • Suffolk
  • Surrey
  • Sussex
  • Thames Valley
  • Warwickshire
  • West Midlands

The following forces use or have purchased SHOGUN:

  • Avon and Somerset
  • Central Scotland
    • WA 178
  • Derbyshire
  • Devon and Cornwall
  • Dumfries and Galloway
  • Durham
  • Gloucestershire
  • Grampian
  • Greater Manchester
  • Hertfordshire
  • Lancashire
  • Leicestershire
  • Merseyside
  • North Yorkshire
  • West Yorkshire
  • Wiltshire

The following forces use other electronic systems:

  • City of London
  • Cumbria
  • Dorset
  • Fife
  • Humberside
  • Lothian and Borders
  • Norfolk
  • Northern
  • Royal Ulster Constabulary
  • Strathclyde
  • Tayside
  • West Mercia

There are no completely manual systems in use.