Official Statistics

Police use of firearms statistics, April 2024 to March 2025

Statistics on police use of firearms in England and Wales in the year ending March 2025.

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Police use of firearms statistics, England and Wales: Open data table

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Police use of firearms time series dashboard and data, England and Wales: 2008/09 to 2024/25

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Details

Covers data on the number of police firearms operations, operations involving armed response vehicles, the number of incidents in which police firearms were discharged at person(s) and the number of armed officers.

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The Home Office statistician responsible for the figures in this release is Jenny Bradley.

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Updates to this page

Published 24 July 2025

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