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1 results foundAuthor: Bryant, Robin Title: Risk Management in relation to Firearms Licensing Summary: Our primary conclusion is that a structured professional judgement should continue to form the basis for risk assessment and decision-making for shotgun and firearms licencing by MPS Firearms Enquiry Officers (FEOs) and their managers. The preparatory desk-bound study we undertook for this report, and our own empirical research using interviews with FEOs and their managers, together with the collection and analysis of data all support this conclusion. The MPS assesses the risk posed by granting or renewing an individual's shotgun and/or firearm Certificate in robust, fair and clear ways, consistent with legal and national requirements and which follow the guidance of the Home Office, College of Policing and others. None-the-less, assessing risk, in the sense of estimating the likelihood of an individual posing a threat in the future, is a challenging undertaking, made particularly difficult in the context of firearms licensing by the ambiguities inherent in the law and in national policy. Our research leads us to suggest that risk assessment and decision-making by FET (SCO19) could be further improved in the following ways. Recommendation 1 - Develop additional forms of risk assessment based on threats (as an aid to structured professional judgement) Recommendation 2 - Increase cooperation with other non-police agencies to share good practice Recommendation 3 - Enhance FEO training and staff development to aid structured professional judgement Recommendation 4 - Develop further the risk assessment of 'reasons to own', the security of the shotgun/firearm, particular occupational groups and during the whole of the five-year period of licencing Recommendation 5 - Maintain and enhance the home visit for initial applicants Recommendation 6 - Further develop the MPS Vulnerability Assessment Frame (VAF) for use by FEOs as part of their structured professional judgement Recommendation 7 - Adapt FEO and other licencing documentation to better support structured professional judgement Recommendation 8 - If 'risk matrices' are employed by the MPS then these should be used to challenge risk assessments, but not as a basis for structured professional judgement Recommendation 9 - Support the development of future FEO decision-making that utilises the analysis of data Details: Canterbury: Canterbury Centre for Policing Research, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2017. 58p. Source: Internet Resource: accessed march 27, 2019 at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320879541_Risk_Management_in_relation_to_Firearms_Licensing Year: 2017 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320879541_Risk_Management_in_relation_to_Firearms_Licensing Shelf Number: 155186 Keywords: Firearms LicensesGun PolicyGun RegulationRisk Assessment |