Weapon Logging

Legal Weaponry

• As you may already be aware, or if not, we are partnered with Ammunation and have a database which contains a register of all weapons which are sold by themselves, and allows us to track legally acquired weapons back to the buyer.

• They shared this with us when there was an influx of shots fired across the city to try to crack down on unlawful and unreported discharges.

• Remember that if someone was to unlawfully discharge their firearm (i.e. not self defense) or are not carrying a license, they are liable to be charged and/or have their license revoked down to context and the officers discretion.

Illegal Weaponry

• Anything that you are not able to purchase at an ammunation store is classed as an illegal firearm.

• You will not find these guns registered in the Weapons tab of the MDT due to them being illegally acquired.

• Going forward, we need to be manually creating these weapons to the database when required.

• For example, if there were shots fired outside of the apartment block and the weapon is not registered in the Weapons Database - take some photographs of where it was discharged, collect the casing(s) and then create a new profile for that weapon in the register, adding the photographs to the main notes box.

• This will then allow us to start tracking when/how often this weapon is discharged and gives us the evidence we require for if we were to prosecute off the back of it.

Storing the Evidence/Casings

• The evidence stash is now alphanumeric, meaning you can use both numbers and letters when storing away evidence.

• In turn, this means you can use the full serial number of the gun as the evidence stash ‘number’.

• Please store the casing you collect from these illegally discharged weapons into their relevant evidence stash, with the serial number being the identifier.

• Please also add a note to the evidence bag if possible to ensure that if there are multiple casings in there from different scenes, that they aren’t mixed up.

Template

Serial Number

93URV6GZ527PLCB

Registered To

ADD NAME IF POSSIBLE - OTHERWISE WILL BE ‘UNKNOWN’.

Model

ANY SUPPORTING INFORMATION POSSIBLE I.E. ‘.45 ACP’

Class

CLASS 1 / CLASS 2 / CLASS 3 IF KNOWN - OTHERWISE WILL BE ‘UNKNOWN’.

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[WHERE IT WAS DISCHARGED] - [DATE/TIME] - [CALLSIGN - NAME] - [INCIDENT/REPORT

NUMBER IF APPLICABLE]

[ANY ADDITIONAL NOTES]

- IMAGE OF SCENE #1

- IMAGE OF SCENE #2

- IMAGE OF SCENE #XX

- PHOTOGRAPH OF EVIDENCE BAG CASING (INCLUDING SERIAL NUMBER)

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