Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 May 1989.

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Photo of Mr Neville Trotter Mr Neville Trotter , Tynemouth 12:00, 11 May 1989

Is my right hon. Friend aware that the police welcome the new powers that they will have from 1 July to refuse to grant shotgun licences and, for the first time, to require these weapons to be kept in safe custody? Will he undertake that the advice that the Home Office must give the police in the near future ensures that there shall be strict regulation over the safe keeping of these deadly weapons? Does he accept that the police and public are right in their belief, in the light of the incident in Monkseaton, that there should be a requirement that those keeping shotguns shall be responsible for ensuring that they do not fall into the wrong hands, and that, whatever the inconveniences involved, they shall be required to keep them safely in custody?