PSNI declares "critical incident' due to firearms licensing service

[Conor O'Gorman]

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has declared a “critical incident” due to protracted backlogs of applications within its firearms licensing department.

A critical incident is defined as “any incident where the effectiveness of the police response is likely to have a significant impact on the confidence of the victim, their family or the community”.

The influencing factors for the backlog given by PSNI, include a lack of resources and a requirement for IT system upgrades. As a result, the PSNI has introduced a Gold Command strategy to deal with the situation.

NI police declares Firearms and Explosives branch “critical incident”

They currently have a backlog of firearms licence applications that is sitting at roughly 3,000 applications and rising.

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[enfieldspares]

The last Gold Command I recall being widely publicised was that where the Met Police under "Gold Commander" Cressida Dick for all intent and purpose executed Jean Charles de Menezes

 

[Foxyboy43]

This is utter tosh! PSNI spent a fortune not too long ago on a processes review and introducing a new computerised system to facilitate on-line FACs and promised turnarounds of merely days. It never happened - they computerised a duff process and the old adage “rubbish in rubbish out“ was never more appropriate - a result of this was that many shotgun holders simply did not renew. Gold Command Strategy is consultant speak for bull - are they really claiming that the CC was unaware of this crisis? The “senior manglement“ team should hang their heads in utter shame and I would dearly love to know what the then proposed system’s Economic Appraisal showed and more importantly what the outputs actually were. For god’s sake only a couple of months ago they closed down for 2 weeks!!
You couldn’t make it up!

 

[Bowland blades]

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has declared a “critical incident” due to protracted backlogs of applications within its firearms licensing department.

A critical incident is defined as “any incident where the effectiveness of the police response is likely to have a significant impact on the confidence of the victim, their family or the community”.

The influencing factors for the backlog given by PSNI, include a lack of resources and a requirement for IT system upgrades. As a result, the PSNI has introduced a Gold Command strategy to deal with the situation.

NI police declares Firearms and Explosives branch “critical incident”

They currently have a backlog of firearms licence applications that is sitting at roughly 3,000 applications and rising.

basc.org.uk

This could and should be fixed very quickly by lengthening the lifetime of all existing FAC , SGC and explosive licensing. Its not like Holders records are not tagged by the GP and any PNC search can show up if anyone under any investigation or complaint has license for guns or explosives . Anyone linked to a shooting range for thier FAC will likewise be reported by the sectary if they are not actively attending etc.