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Firearms Licensing Update​

Good morning,
Hope you are all well,
What a change from yesterday, fabulous weather yesterday, managed to get myself up the trails on the mountain bike. Good job too looking out the window this morning at Ripley HQ.
As of 31 March 2023 which is our end of year date for stats there were 11,632 firearm and shotgun certificate holders in Derbyshire.
This equates to 3,361 firearm certificates and 11,335 shotgun certificates between yourselves.
Between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023 the Department received and completed 2949 applications and our average turnaround time was 45.97 days to completion.
For the month of March '23 we recorded and completed 46 changes of address and 505 weapon transfers. We received 44 variations, 51 grant applications and 132 renewal applications.
Those of you who have been through the process will know that there is great emphasis on obtaining your renewal applications in early hence we send renewal packs out at 17 weeks prior to expiry and if we have not heard from you at the 10 week stage we send a reminder letter, we also have a flag trip at 3 weeks where if you still have not applied a text message is sent to your mobile.
As a result of the Coroner's report following the Plymouth shooting inquest earlier this year we have made a minor change to the referee process. Once your application is received we email a proforma to the referee of your choice. This email informs them of their responsibilities as a referee and asks a set of questions in a template that they must answer and return by email.
This process started this month and to date is working well. It is important that the email address of the referee is obtained. This gives vital information to the referee regarding what they need to do, clarifies their relationship to you and allows us to have a recorded trail of communication.
I have in the past reported that should you wish to surrender any firearms or ammunition for disposal/destruction , you can do by attending a police station of your choice. There has been for some time a booking process as enquiry office staff are not keen to have folk just turn up without an appointment. If you google Derbyshire Constabulary and click on the website and then follow the below instructions i am told the process is simple and your attendance is then expected.

Force Website > click on Contact Us at the bottom of the page then click ‘something else’/ discuss something else – this then opens a general enquiry form – they just then need to say they wish to surrender a firearm, the form will then come to the Enquiry Office who will contact the person to make an appointment to attend the station of their choice.

The Coroner for the Plymouth inquest has made many recommendations of which are being examined and debated by the Home Office and the national Firearms and Explosives Licensing Working Group (FELWG).
A national training programme is being developed for Firearms Licensing staff, there are many recommendations around legislative changes and a fees review has taken place.
Once a decision has been made and are made public i will report back to yourselves.

The most efficient way to contact our Department is via our website. We are now into our 4th year of running online applications and the mandatory GP process, which was ahead of many other forces.
I can assure you all that there are no backlogs in this force of any kind and that has been the case since we came out of the first lock down.
Have a great weekend
Speak to you again soon
Malc Bibbings
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This is how it should be done. Why cant every force do this? Massive congratulations to Derbyshire!!!! Wish GMP were like this. I might move 5 miles up the road so I can have these guys as my authority!
 
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Great communication from him and they seem on top of their workload…however, I see an underlying issue when he mentions -
“The Coroner for the Plymouth inquest has made many recommendations of which are being examined and debated by the Home Office and the national Firearms and Explosives Licensing Working Group (FELWG).
A national training programme is being developed for Firearms Licensing staff, there are many recommendations around legislative changes”

This makes me wonder what’s coming next?!?

Regards,
Gixer
 
gixer1 said:
Great communication from him and they seem on top of their workload…however, I see an underlying issue when he mentions -
“The Coroner for the Plymouth inquest has made many recommendations of which are being examined and debated by the Home Office and the national Firearms and Explosives Licensing Working Group (FELWG).
A national training programme is being developed for Firearms Licensing staff, there are many recommendations around legislative changes”

This makes me wonder what’s coming next?!?

Regards,
Gixer
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Yes there are changes a foot these will have an impact on FLDs initially. However this will ultimately have a major impact on shooters and applicants in general.
 
Wow, that’s just what we’d all like from our FEO. Timely accurate information and updates on current pertinent affairs

Well done to them.
 
Why is no one getting animated by the use of the word weapon, particularly the ones who love to spout things like,

“Call it a weapon to your FEO at renewal, see how you get on”

Most FEOs seem to refer to them as weapons!
 
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