Question On Notice No. 878 asked in the Legislative Council on 30 August 2022 by Hon Peter Collier
Question Directed to the: Minister for Emergency Services representing the Minister for Police
Parliament: 41 Session: 1
Question
(1) How many registered guns were stolen from residential homes in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 to date?
(2) With reference to (1), for each of the years indicated, on how many occasions were multiple guns stolen from each residential address? (For example, one, two, three guns etc)?
Answered on 11 October 2022
(1) The Western Australia Police Force can provide the number of firearms stolen, from residential homes in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 to date, however cannot identify the registration status.
Table 1.
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Number of firearms reported stolen from residential homes in calendar years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 Year To Date*.
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Year
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022 YTD*
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Number of Stolen Firearms
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285
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132
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216
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104
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*2022 YTD is between 01 January 2022 and 12 September 2022 inclusive.
(2)
Table 2.
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Number of incidents where one or more firearms were reported stolen from a residential home in calendar years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 YTD*, by number of firearms stolen per incident.
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Number of Firearms
Stolen per Incident
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Year
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022 YTD*
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1
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56
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25
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35
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24
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2 or more
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58
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34
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47
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23
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2
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23
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18
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19
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7
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3
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12
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6
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12
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8
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4
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10
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4
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6
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3
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5
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4
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2
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2
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1
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6
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1
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1
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1
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3
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7
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2
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3
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-
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1
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8
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2
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-
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2
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-
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9
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-
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-
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2
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-
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10
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3
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-
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1
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-
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11
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-
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-
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1
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-
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12
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-
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-
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1
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-
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21**
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1
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-
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-
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-
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Total
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114
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59
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82
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47
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*2022 YTD is between 01 January 2022 and 12 September 2022 inclusive.
**The maximum number of firearms stolen in one incident during this time period was 21. Rows for numbers 13 to 20 were omitted as there were no incidents with these numbers of firearms stolen in one incident during the time period in question.
Source: Data extracted from the Incident Management System (IMS) on 13 September 2022.
Notes:
- Statistics are provisional and subject to revision.
- Statistics in Table 1 are a sum of distinct firearms stolen in incidents reported between 1 January 2019 and 12 September 2022.
- Statistics in Table 2 are a distinct count of incidents reported between 1 January 2019 and 12 September 2022, by the sum of distinct firearms stolen per incident.
- Stolen firearms have been defined as property items recorded in IMS with a classification of ‘Stolen’ and type of ‘Firearm’. Figures are therefore reliant on the assessment and accuracy of the recording.
- Residential homes have been defined as the place where the incident occurred and was recorded in IMS with a place type of ‘House’. This includes houses, flats/units, park homes, nursing and retirement homes.