If the people of Bradford want more done about gun crime then they have to expect less done in other areas, Chief Constable Colin Cramphorn warned today.

He described the murder of dad Tasawar Hussain as a "tragedy" and agreed a weapons amnesty would get more guns off the streets.

But he added: "Police are on the case, nowhere more so than in West Yorkshire.

"The bottom line is we are always happy to do more but then it is a question of what we stop doing if you want more on this."

Mr Cramphorn said West Yorkshire had a good record on gun crime with 332 incidents last year compared to 1,289 in West Midlands, 1,361 in Greater Manchester, and 4,192 in London.

"Let us not get carried away by the emotions but look at it with a calm head in the context of the figures," he added.

"The point is West Yorkshire is bucking the national trend, and that is not by accident,"

But he said the public "could not have its cake and eat it" if they also wanted high priority visible patrolling and reassurance, which was the message which came across at community forums.

He also said Mr Hussain's murder on Monday should not be classed with the shootings in Birmingham where youth and Drugs are involved.

He said to do so would be to "muddy the waters" about gun crime.

"Other recent cases are so clearly of a different nature to what happened on Monday night," he said.

"We are talking about two separate species of crime. Yes there are issues of availability but people have been going out to steal cash in transit vans and have been using firearms for as long as I have been a cop.

"When there has been a spirited defence the firearm has been used and you end up with a tragic murder."

He said two operations - Safeguard and Stirrup - had proved very effective and had led to 271 arrests, 121 deportations, 17 firearms recovered and crack cocaine worth £1 million recovered.

And last year's amnesty in West Yorkshire recovered 271 firearms and 5,000 rounds of ammunition.

But he said his thoughts went to the family of Mr Hussain.

"Here you had an ordinary member of the public who, in the heat of the moment, does something that anyone might do and he has paid the ultimate penalty for it.

"When I heard about it my reaction was one of disgust.

"One gun crime, is one too many."

Chief Superintendent Phil Read, divisional commander for Bradford North, added his condolences to Mr Hussain's family.

But he said every effort was being made in Bradford - with success - to remove the environment which leads to gun crime.

Improvements in areas like Manningham and removing locations favoured by dealers was having a positive impact, he said.

Several hundreds dealers have been arrested in a Crackdown of Drugs operation, he said.

And the Crimestoppers hotline had also produced results with a handgun being recently recovered after a tip-off from a member of the public.

"If this tragedy prompts one person to call Crimestoppers and tell us about a gun we will act on it as swiftly as we can," he said.

"That is how the community can help the police.

"It means we can get a gun off the streets - even if there is no prisoner," he said.

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