Constabulary-by-Constabulary: how long did it take you to get your ticket?

[Lock Stock & Barrel]

May have been asked before, but how long did it take you to get your SGC once you'd applied for it?

I'll start: Greater Manchester Police - 16 days, from posting it, to having my home interview, to it arriving on the doormat through the post.

You?

 

[ianmaney]

West Mids police 8 weeks from posting the form to having the licence in my hand.

 

[DAVE_B]

Thames Valley Police 5 weeks from posting application to delivery. Handed my wife's application during FEOs visit and that only took 4 weeks.

Dave

 

[woody]

Co-terminus renewal and a variation to FAC was 16 weeks with Sussex. They are known to be terrible though

 

[newbie]

gloucestershire - 14weeks IIRC with muchos chasing and if i hadn't it would have taken much longer.

 

[Maxum]

Staffordshire 12 weeks behind on everything.

Even has an answer phone message telling you this.

 

[Dpark516]

Wiltshire Police - 3 Weeks

 

[beeredup]

First grant from Lancashire 4 months with a bit of grumbling and chasing at the end

 

[Chris Reedy]

Cheshire = 5 weeks from posting my form to receiving license in the post

 

[Lesley]

Hampshire - new certificate 6 months with lots of chasing and grumbling and, in the end, pleading. :huh:

 

[beeredup]

To be fair to Lancashire constabulary the delay was due to my GP surgery arguing about payment for a letter from my GP which once i had been in to the surgery and had a grumble was hand delivered the next day! and i posted it off to the firearms dept an got my cert in a few days after that

 

[Alan Maughan]

Northumbria took 7 weeks 2 days 4 hours and 52 minutes - not that I was counting or anything

16 days is how it should be for all of us.

 

[Mick Shaw]

I'm still waiting for my renewal since March ! (Lincs Police) I think it will be a world record !!

 

[RobertBeard]

I renewed my FAC and applied for a coterminus shotgun certificate with an FAC variation from Devon & Cornwall - 3 months exactly

 

[MX8man]

I think we need to distinguish between new applications and renewals.

I renewed my SGC with West Mercia and it took a week. I was told that they were issuing renewals without any home inspection or presumably any check with one's GP although I expect they checked my criminal record in case I'd been done for drink driving or robbing a bank.

However, new applications were taking 4 to 5 months.

 

[Richard59]

Glos Police, 8 weeks for renewal, during which they did communicate informing of a delay, it was my 4th renewal and the longest in terms of weeks

 

[westmids1987]

Warwickshire new grant,24 days from post to recieving

 

[Al-Nitro]

Derbyshire, 6 weeks from posting out to getting SGL through letterbox.

 

[JonSkeet2]

Initial application with Thames Valley took 22 weeks in 2009.

Jon.