Police Annual Statistical Report - Miscellaneous Firearms

Firearm Type

Breakdown of firearm type for every firearm that was seized by the TPS

Crime Guns

A crime gun is “any firearm that has been or suspected to have been used in in a criminal offence; any firearm that is obtained, possessed, or intended to be used to facilitate criminal activity; any firearm that has had a serial number removed, altered or obliterated; and any weapon that has been adapted for use as a firearm” (Toronto Police Service Governance Definitions and Service Procedure 09‐03).

Crime Guns – Firearm Type

Crime guns seized by TPS, broken down by type of firearm

Crime Guns – Firearm Classification

Crime guns seized by TPS, broken down by firearm classification

Stolen Firearms – Recovered by TPS

Breakdown of firearms recovered by TPS by jurisdiction a firearm was reported stolen

Firearms Reported Stolen and Recovered by Firearm Type

Breakdown of firearm types for those reported stolen and recovered by TPS

TPS Firearm Thefts by Premise Type

Breakdown of premise types where a firearm was stolen

Firearm thefts reported to TPS – Type of Firearm Stolen

Breakdown of firearm type stolen

General Qualifiers

• Each report is generated with the statistics for the current year’s report

• Each year’s data will be archived as historical data, and not refreshed and updated for the yearly upload of open data

Datasets available for download

• Miscellaneous FirearmsCSV
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• Annual Statistical Report

Additional Info

• Maturity Level 1 (54%)
• Maturity Level 2 (46%)
• Maturity Level 3 (0%)
• Maturity Level 4 (10%)
• Maturity Level 5 (0%)
• Maturity Level 6 (0%)

Field	Value
Last Updated	December 17, 2025, 18:40 (UTC)
Created	December 17, 2025, 18:40 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.	Public safety
Title Title for the Dataset.	Police Annual Statistical Report - Miscellaneous Firearms
Description A description of the dataset.	Firearm Type Breakdown of firearm type for every firearm that was seized by the TPS Crime Guns A crime gun is “any firearm that has been or suspected to have been used in in a criminal offence; any firearm that is obtained, possessed, or intended to be used to facilitate criminal activity; any firearm that has had a serial number removed, altered or obliterated; and any weapon that has been adapted for use as a firearm” (Toronto Police Service Governance Definitions and Service Procedure 09‐03). Crime Guns – Firearm Type Crime guns seized by TPS, broken down by type of firearm Crime Guns – Firearm Classification Crime guns seized by TPS, broken down by firearm classification Stolen Firearms – Recovered by TPS Breakdown of firearms recovered by TPS by jurisdiction a firearm was reported stolen Firearms Reported Stolen and Recovered by Firearm Type Breakdown of firearm types for those reported stolen and recovered by TPS TPS Firearm Thefts by Premise Type Breakdown of premise types where a firearm was stolen Firearm thefts reported to TPS – Type of Firearm Stolen Breakdown of firearm type stolen General Qualifiers Each report is generated with the statistics for the current year’s report Each year’s data will be archived as historical data, and not refreshed and updated for the yearly upload of open data
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	Annual Statistical Report
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2020-11-18
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

Field	Value
Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
License License used to access the dataset.	License not specified
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/police-annual-statistical-report-miscellaneous-firearms
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	Toronto Police Services, Analytics & Innovation, [email protected]
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.	[email protected]
Author Author of the dataset.	[email protected]
Author Email Email of the author.	[email protected]
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

Field	Value
Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	https://data.torontopolice.on.ca/datasets/TorontoPS::miscellaneous-firearms-asr-f-tbl-003/about
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

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