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Met Police figures show gun crime is falling across London (8 October 2014)

Date: 08/10/2014
Duncan Lewis, Crime Solicitors, Met Police figures show gun crime is falling across London

New figures from the Metropolitan Police have revealed that gun crime in the capital peaked in 2011, the same year as the London riots erupted across the capital.

Over the last three-and-a-half years, a gun has been fired on 1,400 occasions the figures show – resulting in 29 fatalities and 760 injuries, including life changing injuries.

In 2011, a total of 532 shots were fired in the capital with 12 people killed as a result and 202 injured. In 2012, a total of 412 shots were fired across London, resulting in six fatalities and 227 injuries.

Between 2013 and 2014, the number of gun crime incidents fell , however – in 2013, a total of 308 shots were fired, with 10 fatalities and 168 injuries.

In 2014 (to 22 June), guns were fired on 122 occasions across the capital, resulting in one death and 63 injuries.

The data was obtained by London newspaper the Evening Standard under a Freedom of Information request.

Figures show that most gun crime takes place in the southeast London Borough of Lambeth – between January 2011 and June 2014, a total of 130 shots were fired in Lambeth, with seven fatalities and 67 people injured.

The next highest figure for gun crime in the capital was recorded in the south London Borough of Newham, as well as Hackney in northeast London, with both boroughs having 79 shootings across the same period.

Lewisham in south London had 74 shootings between 2011 and June 2014 –followed by Southwark in southeast London, with 72 shootings in three-and-a-half years.

After Lambeth, Croydon had the highest number of fatalities as a result of gun crime, with three people killed over three-and-a-half years.

The Met Police figures also reveal that other areas of the capital are also affected by high rates of gun crime – including Thamesmead East in Bexley, Kilburn and Bromley Town.

The most shots fired this year have been in Stonebridge in Brent.

However, Detective Chief Superintendent Dean Haydon – who heads up the Met Police’s gang crime unit Operation Trident – said that gun crime was now at its lowest level in the capital for six years, including the seizure of weapons which had not been fired. In the last year, the Met has seized 300 guns – but he added that the police were not being “complacent” because levels of gun crime were falling and are focusing efforts on “known violent offenders” in the fight against gun crime.

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