Statement to Parliament: Police use of taser statistics England and Wales 2014

Posted by on 15 October, 2014
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The Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice (Mike Penning):

I am today publishing the statistics on police use of Taser in England and Wales for the six month period between 1 January and 30 June 2014.

These show that:

  • the total number of times Taser was used by the police in this period is 5,107
  • non-discharges account for 81% of the Taser use
  • the most common use of Taser in this period was ‘red dot’, which accounted for 52% of overall use
  • the percentage for ‘drive stun’ and ‘angle drive stun’ accounted for 3% of overall use
  • the percentage for ‘fired’ accounted for 16% of overall use

Full details are available and a copy will be placed in the House Library.

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