Custodial Treatment: Weapons
(asked on 2nd February 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2016 to Question 24706, how many toy guns or home-made replicas and imitation guns have been confiscated in prisons or young offenders institutes in each year since 2010.
The table below shows the number of home-made, replica and toy firearms found in prison over the 5 year period requested.
Firearms reported on the Incident Reporting System (IRS)1,2 2011 to 2015 | |||||
Firearm description | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Home Made | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Replica | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Toy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
(1) Includes NOMS operated Immigration Removal Centres. | |||||
(2) Excludes finds of real (functional or non-functional) guns. | |||||