Firearms Licensing department 92/2025

FOI Reference: 92/2025

Request

Please will you provide the following information for your firearms licensing department.

1) The annual budget for the department for April 2024 to March 2025

2) The number of full-time equivalent staff present at end of 2024, broken down into: -

Decision makers

FEOs

Administration staff

I appreciate that you may have different names for the functions, but any information on staff breakdown/function would be useful.

Response Q1

£590,018.54

Response Q2

Full-time equivalent staff as of 31/12/24 – 23.46 FTE total

Firearms Licensing Support – 7.8

Firearms Enquiry Officer – 7.66

Firearm Enquiry Caseworker – 4

Firearms and Explosives Licensing Supervisor – 2

Firearms and Explosives Licensing Manager (Decision maker) – 1

Firearms and Explosives Licensing Co-ordinator (Decision maker) – 1

It should be noted that as a result of the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such information that the information released may or may not be accurate.

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 17/02/2025)