‘These confiscations underpin our very serious concerns about the proliferation of firearms in our city. Our staff remove so many firearms from the streets, and yet the supply just seems endless. Gun violence is one of the key reasons why we are battling to drive down our murder rates. More needs to be done to track the origins of these weapons, how they end up in circulation on our streets, and how to cut off the supply lines. It is also critical that firearm cases and ballistics be fast-tracked. The City has witnessed first-hand through our watching briefs, the slow pace of cases where the arrests were made by our staff, and so we renew our call for greater urgency, resources and commitment from the criminal justice system to deal with gun violence,’ said Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, Alderman JP Smith.