Firearms Licensing League Table 2018

The table below shows the average number of days a police force takes to process different application types. The figures are colour coded to indicate relative performance (green top 10, red bottom 10, yellow average).

Force name	FAC Grant	SGC Grant	Coterminous Grant	FAC Renewal	SGC Renewal	Coterminous Renewal	Variation
Avon & Somerset	96	102	92	49	45	53	27
Bedfordshire	53	53	48	41	38	41	22
Cambridgeshire	51	51	43	28	25	31	20
Cheshire	54	60	50	36	40	37	7
City of London	0	96	0	0	1	0	0
Cleveland	43	30	37	13	7	1	1
Cumbria	61	41	57	50	34	48	14
Derbyshire	47	46	41	34	34	34	15
Devon & Cornwall	56	55	52	39	37	37	4
Dorset	146	159	133	97	89	98	24
Durham	46	55	45	44	41	43	3
Dyfed Powys	56	60	53	48	29	45	19
Essex	65	63	62	10	9	13	10
Gloucestershire	97	61	79	33	26	37	16
Greater Manchester Police	95	95	90	83	74	78	5
Gwent	61	53	68	58	53	57	21
Hampshire	63	54	49	25	18	30	16
Hertfordshire	67	42	39	37	36	35	18
Humberside	78	79	89	45	41	49	18
Kent	54	50	48	59	55	58	14
Lancashire	38	42	33	24	26	25	2
Leicestershire	41	38	46	31	6	28	6
Lincolnshire	49	48	40	49	52	45	7
Merseyside	69	69	75	43	39	40	7
Metropolitan Police	62	58	54	44	41	43	10
Norfolk	37	36	32	33	28	31	15
North Wales	69	64	72	47	44	51	28
North Yorkshire	81	85	77	35	25	35	2
Northamptonshire	62	64	65	16	12	21	21
Northumbria	43	43	37	43	42	41	3
Nottinghamshire	57	46	55	48	27	44	19
South Wales	155	143	133	151	62	141	29
South Yorkshire	78	76	77	74	73	72	2
Staffordshire	61	59	65	82	64	73	14
Suffolk	49	51	43	45	20	44	9
Surrey	75	60	63	54	46	49	3
Sussex	42	39	37	36	33	33	4
Thames Valley Police	91	67	90	76	43	73	16
Warwickshire	271	24	25	34	40	30	11
West Mercia	36	36	35	38	41	36	13
West Midlands Police	82	72	83	102	75	95	20
West Yorkshire	57	45	51	64	56	60	11
Wiltshire	59	62	52	46	45	44	4

Figures supplied by Simon Dicketts, Central Administrator, National Firearms Licensing Management System (NFLMS), Home Office.

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