"Figure 3.5: Offences recorded by the police in which firearms were reported to have been used by selected offence type, year ending March 2005 to year ending March 2016","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics. 2. Prior to the year ending March 2005 air weapon offences were recorded as homicide, attempted murder, other violence against the person, robbery, burglary, criminal damage or other offences. Unlike non-air weapons, data on the specific offences that constitute these groups is not held therefore the correction relating to 'other violence against the person' offences (described in the Overview chapter) can only be applied to air weapon data from the year ending March 2005 onwards. 3. The Violent Crime Reduction Act introduced in October 2007 made it illegal to import or sell imitation firearms and tightened the rules for the manufacture and sale of certain types of air weapon." "Unit","Number of offences" "","" "","Violence against the person","Robbery","Criminal damage" "Apr 04 to Mar 05","6139","3744","10038" "Apr 05 to Mar 06","5327","4121","8979" "Apr 06 to Mar 07","4329","3977","7691" "Apr 07 to Mar 08","4333","4014","6474" "Apr 08 to Mar 09","3045","3615","5158" "Apr 09 to Mar 10","3111","3663","4097" "Apr 10 to Mar 11","2822","2975","3571" "Apr 11 to Mar 12","2366","2567","3002" "Apr 12 to Mar 13","2017","2206","2426" "Apr 13 to Mar 14","1862","1977","2439" "Apr 14 to Mar 15","1908","1716","2513" "Apr 15 to Mar 16","2261","1551","2449"