Table 5
Shot gun certificates : Applications for new and renewals (granted and refused); cancellations, revocations and certificates on issue at 31 December 2007, by police force area
Number & Rate
Police force area | Applications | Cancell -
ations (1) | Revo -
cations (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 | 69 | 3 | 574 | - | 110 | 1 | 2,159 | 754 |
|---|
Dumfries & Galloway | 157 | 8 | 1,188 | - | 196 | 10 | 4,233 | 2,860 |
|---|
Fife | 170 | 1 | 618 | - | 294 | 3 | 2,640 | 736 |
|---|
Grampian | 317 | 1 | 2,146 | 1 | 410 | 16 | 8,935 | 1,686 |
|---|
Lothian & Borders | 323 | 7 | 2,048 | - | 363 | 22 | 7,832 | 859 |
|---|
Northern | 248 | 7 | 2,417 | 2 | 400 | 14 | 8,673 | 3,061 |
|---|
Strathclyde | 354 | 4 | 2,741 | 4 | 532 | 5 | 8,940 | 405 |
|---|
Tayside | 222 | - | 1,401 | 2 | 303 | 12 | 5,801 | 1,481 |
|---|
All forces | 1,860 | 31 | 13,133 | 9 | 2,608 | 83 | 49,213 | 962 |
|---|
(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 2006.