Police use of firearms statistics, England and Wales: financial year ending 31 March 2014:  “This release contains statistics on police use of firearms across England and Wales in the year ending March 2014. It details the total number of:

• police firearms’ operations (operations in which firearms were authorised)
• police firearms’ operations involving Armed Response Vehicles (ARVs)
• police firearms’ operations where firearms were discharged (number of incidents where conventional firearms were discharged)
• police firearms officers (authorised firearms officers (AFOs))

The statistics in this release can be found in the ‘Police use of firearms, England and Wales, year ending March 2014: data tables’. The tables include force and regional breakdowns.”

• Doug Bolton – The Independent – The statistics released today by the Home Office cover the financial year from April 2013 to March 2014, and show the huge contrast between policing in the UK when compared to America.503 people in the USA have been killed by police using firearms in the first six months of this year – and in the first 24 days of 2015, American police killed more people than police in England and Wales have killed in 24 years.  [empahsis added] The only person to be killed by armed police during the last four years was Dean Joseph, who was shot in the chest and arm in Islington, North London, in the early hours of 5 September 2014.”