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THE TIMES
SATURDAY JULY 21 2001
Britain gripped by gun crimewave
BY STEWART TENDLER, CRIME CORRESPONDENT
POLICE forces reported more than 500 gun alerts in the seven days before the shooting
dead of Derek Bennett by
police in Brixton, a Times survey has found.
Four years after the post-Dunblane gun law reforms were launched, 30 of the 43 forces
in England and Wales
dealt with 571 incidents in which guns were reportedly seen or heard over a seven-day
period. Real or
imitation weapons were involved in 166 of the incidents, most in London and other big
cities.
Scotland Yard dealt with 364 reported incidents in the week from July 12. Officers
found that guns had been
used in 158 incidents including armed robberies, shootings and attempted murders.
Police investigated a gun murder in Leeds and a house sprayed with bullets by a masked
gang in Manchester. In
Birmingham car-jackers pistol-whipped a young woman driver. Police officers twice came
under fire on the
streets of London and Newcastle. In the heart of Brixton, less than a mile from the
spot where Mr Bennett was
shot, police chasing two gunmen discovered a Mac-10 submachine gun fitted with a
silencer.
The survey also reveals the number of false alarms sparked by public fear. Surrey
police were called to the
sound of a gun which proved to be a door being slammed violently in a house. Hampshire
had twenty 999 calls
about guns, and all were proved to be unfounded. In Lincoln patrols were alerted to a
man in a car with a gun.
It was a toy.
Peter Fahy, Assistant Chief Constable of Surrey, said one of his three armed response
vehicles is called to
respond to false alarms every two days.
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