Inadequate training for firearms licensing staff
Home Office received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 15 Jul 2019 and 8 Feb 2023.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from Home Office was found for the earlier reports.
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“there was no national training course for staff working in police firearms licensing departments as Firearms Enquiry Officers”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from Home Office was found for this report.
- 3 years 7 months later
Raised again · 1st time
Maxine Davison, Lee Martyn, Sophie Martyn, Stephen Washington and Kate Shepherd↗
8 Feb 2023 · Ian Arrow · Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner“numerous recommendations arising from previous inquiries and reviews regarding the training of police officers and police staff involved in firearms licensing decisions had not been put into effect”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:trainingpoliceofficersstafffirearmslicensing
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2019 → 2023Maxine Davison, Lee Martyn, Sophie Martyn, Stephen Washington and Kate Shepherd3 years 7 months after Christine Lee · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight a lack of adequate, nationally standardized training for police personnel responsible for firearms licensing decisions.
Christine Lee · 15 Jul 2019
“there was no national training course for staff working in police firearms licensing departments as Firearms Enquiry Officers”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Maxine Davison, Lee Martyn, Sophie Martyn, Stephen Washington and Kate Shepherd · 8 Feb 2023
“numerous recommendations arising from previous inquiries and reviews regarding the training of police officers and police staff involved in firearms licensing decisions had not been put into effect”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from Home Office was found for this report.
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- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Home Office at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 → 2023 | 0.85 | 0.23 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
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