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Security Inspection
Mandatory for all licence applications (Reg. 19).
Note to licencing staff:
• The security for the licence applied for must be physically inspected by you (there are NO exceptions to this).
• Cupboards/wardrobes and the like which are also used for purposes other than storing firearms are not acceptable as firearms storage,
unless the firearm is
also secured by rack or stout container.
Sporting-configured firearms (“A-Cat”),
Date of inspection:
number held at date of inspection:
Time:
“A-Category” security sufficient to contain:
(number)
Comments:
(explain any discrepancy
re: storage space and
number of firearms held)
General security requirements:
Address confirmed as applicant’s.
Yes
No
If no, why not?
Other sites where firearms
1.
SECURITY REPOR
MANDA
will be stored (if other
than applicant’s residential
address) – OR additional
TOR
addresses (bach etc).
Y
2.
T
:
Why stored there?
Sec:
12-13
Other site(s) security checked?
Yes
No
Checked by:
QID:
Other person firearms
Name
stored with:
Firearm Licence No.
Phone
Are the other site(s) often left
Yes
No
vacant?
Details of additional security
measures taken (if often left
vacant):
Applicant
initial here
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Names of other people who live at, use, visit, frequent or otherwise have access to the alternative storage site and/or the
regular storage site:
Completed in applicant interview page 26
No others
1. Surname
Forename/s
Age
Relationship to applicant
Access:
Home site
Alternate site
Do you have any concerns if they have access to firearms?
Yes
No
(e.g. Are they likely to be judged “fit and proper” – Do they pose any threat to themselves or others?)
If YES, why?
(Full report, if required, included in ‘Licensing Vetting Officer’s observations and notes’ on page 29)
2. Surname
Forename/s
Age
Relationship to applicant
Access:
Home site
Alternate site
Do you have any concerns if they have access to firearms?
Yes
No
(e.g. Are they likely to be judged “fit and proper” – Do they pose any threat to themselves or others?)
If YES, why?
:
T
Y
(Full report, if required, included in ‘Licensing Vetting Officer’s observations and notes’ on page 29)
TOR
3. Surname
Forename/s
MANDA
SECURITY REPOR
Age
Relationship to applicant
Access:
Home site
Alternate site
Sec:
Do you have any concerns if they have access to firearms?
Yes
No
12-13
(e.g. Are they likely to be judged “fit and proper” – Do they pose any threat to themselves or others?)
If YES, why?
(Full report, if required, included in ‘Licensing Vetting Officer’s observations and notes’ on page 29)
4. Surname
Forename/s
Age
Relationship to applicant
Access:
Home site
Alternate site
Do you have any concerns if they have access to firearms?
Yes
No
(e.g. Are they likely to be judged “fit and proper” – Do they pose any threat to themselves or others?)
If YES, why?
(Full report, if required, included in ‘Licensing Vetting Officer’s observations and notes’ on page 29)
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Applicant
initial here
Are you satisfied that none of these people pose any threat to themselves or others should
Yes
No
they gain access to firearms?
Why do you hold this view?
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“A-Cat” Storage
Confirm that firearm(s) safety parts (bolt, magazine, breach block, shotgun forelock),
Yes
No
are stored separate from firearm(s)?
Yes
No
Are the keys to the storage kept away from the firearm(s)?
Are the firearms or keys
Yes
No
accessible to others?
Are the firearms or keys
Yes
No
accessible to children?
Separate ammunition storage?
OR
Not capable of discharge?
SECURITY REPOR
MANDA
Lockable cabinet/container/receptacle?
AND
Stout construction
TOR
AND
Securely fixed to building
Y
Lockable display cabinet or rack
AND
Stout construction
T
:
AND
Securely fixed to building
Further details:
Sec:
12-13
Use the following to describe the security in place: (tick relevant boxes)
DISPLAY CABINET OR RACK:
Racks are to be physically tested to ensure that the firearms cannot be removed from the rack. It is important to check shorter length
barrel firearms that can be broken down, to ensure that they cannot be removed. Racks are to be secured to frame of building by
hardened one-way screws or bolted with welded/burred nuts or screws or bolts concealed by firearm when in rack. Rack and Cabinets
are to be tested for security of fixings to building. Display cabinet or box is to be physically tested to ensure that the door retaining
mechanisms cannot be defeated by simple hand tools or by force applied by hand.
1.
Fixing:
Rack/cabinet secured to frame of building
Bolted to wall through at least 2 studs/dwangs
Entire rack/cabinet prevented from being removed
Applicant
initial here
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2.
Firearms
How are the firearms secured in rack or display cabinet (e.g. locked cable, locked rod, padlock)?
(Give details.)
3.
Constructed to prevent
AND
Prevent firing
firearm removal
4.
Capable of resisting reasonable physical attack
5.
Locks:
Security rated padlocks
OR
Hardened steel shackle
OR
Locking device/s
Specify
STOUT CABINET OR BOX:
Cabinet or box is to be physically tested to ensure that the door retaining mechanisms cannot be defeated by simple
hand tools or by force applied by hand.
1.
Construction – able to withstand attack with hand tools
Wood
Ply ( )mm
OR
Other – describe
( )mm
OR
Metal
Mild Steel ( )mm OR
Other – describe
( )mm
:
T
2.
3mm Hinges: Hinge pins retained
OR
Other – describe
or concealed
Y
3.
Locks:
TOR
Two locking mechanisms
OR
Single locking mechanism
MANDA
SECURITY REPOR
4.
Fixing:
Bolted or secured to wall
AND/OR
Floor
5.
Entire cabinet/box prevented from being moved
Sec:
12-13
6.
Wall/floor fixings inside cabinet/box
7.
Bolt and screw heads/nuts burred or
welded if not concealed inside cabinet/box
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Applicant
Applicant
initial here
initial her
BUILDING: (in which rack, box or cabinet is fixed)
Type of building/premises: (Use N.I.A location codes)
1.
Inside premises
OR
Outbuilding
AND
Special circumstances (specify:)
2.
Inside confined space (specify:)
3. Is the building structurally
Yes
No
sound?
4.
Alarms:
Audible
AND
Monitored
SECURITY REPOR
MANDA
Certificate: To be completed by a Police Employee who has completed the security inspection.
TOR
I certify that I have visited the location of the firearms secure storage, inspected it and have made other enquiries
Y
as I have considered to be necessary, and am therefore satisfied that the applicant’s security arrangements comply
with the Arms Regulations in respect of a standard Firearms Licence:
T
:
OR
I consider the applicant’s security arrangements are NOT sufficient for the granting of the licence applied for.
Sec:
Licensing Vetting Officer/
12-13
Police Employee name:
Signature:
QID:
Date:
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