Recorded Crimes and Offences Involving Firearms, Scotland, 2014-2015 and 2015-2016

Statistics on those crimes and offences recorded by the police in Scotland in which a firearm was alleged to have been involved or where a firearm was stolen.


Table 15a: Offences in which an identified firearm (other than an air weapon) was alleged to have been involved by, local authority, Scotland, 2006-07 to 2013-14

Number

Local Authority area 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-131 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16
Aberdeen City 1 5 8 2 - - 2 1 3 10
Aberdeenshire 4 7 - 2 - - 2 7 4 5
Angus 17 26 19 11 3 5 2 2 1 -
Argyll & Bute 3 3 - 4 2 - 3 - 1 1
Clackmannanshire 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 3 3 -
Dumfries & Galloway 5 9 15 7 8 8 9 3 - 3
Dundee City 33 49 22 14 11 15 6 - - 6
East Ayrshire 15 4 4 5 6 6 4 5 4 4
East Dunbartonshire 6 6 5 2 8 5 - 1 1 2
East Lothian 4 11 20 10 12 7 3 - 7 -
East Renfrewshire 6 1 - 5 6 5 1 - 2 2
Edinburgh City 69 58 69 74 44 39 28 32 51 27
Falkirk 4 1 3 1 2 9 5 3 3 10
Fife 5 6 12 7 21 15 8 22 18 19
Glasgow City 76 76 88 60 90 51 22 12 9 10
Highland 5 14 19 1 3 8 4 2 2 1
Inverclyde 3 11 2 5 8 5 1 2 - 1
Midlothian 5 14 11 7 - 5 5 6 1 2
Moray - - - 1 - 1 - 4 - 2
Na h-Eileanan Siar - - - 1 - - - - - -
North Ayrshire 11 5 3 1 8 5 3 2 3 4
North Lanarkshire 28 26 27 25 22 15 16 9 6 8
Orkney Islands 1 - 1 - 4 1 - - - -
Perth & Kinross 17 22 12 11 15 4 4 4 - 2
Renfrewshire 9 22 25 18 17 10 6 8 2 2
Scottish Borders 10 9 10 6 7 14 2 2 1 4
Shetland Islands - - - - - - - - - -
South Ayrshire 7 6 3 10 4 5 2 1 3 7
South Lanarkshire 18 18 23 28 21 12 12 1 8 7
Stirling 4 1 2 3 1 7 7 5 4 7
West Dunbartonshire 14 16 9 3 7 1 - - 1 1
West Lothian 21 36 14 22 12 27 10 1 6 4
Scotland 402 462 427 346 343 285 168 138 144 151

Notes:
1. As a result of a change in recording practices by Lothian and Borders Police, their data for 2012-13 are not directly comparable with previous years. For further information please see Note 4.6.6.

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