{"id":48767,"date":"2014-10-15T14:22:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3ee63250dba54c345fb16819a62b0963"},"modified":"2014-10-15T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:22:04","slug":"statement-to-parliament-police-use-of-taser-statistics-england-and-wales-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48767","title":{"rendered":"Statement to Parliament: Police use of taser statistics England and Wales 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h3 id=\"the-minister-of-state-for-policing-and-criminal-justice-mike-penning\">The Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice (Mike Penning):<\/h3>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>These show that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the total number of times Taser was used by the police in this period is 5,107<\/li>\n<li>non-discharges account for 81% of the Taser use<\/li>\n<li>the most common use of Taser in this period was \u2018red dot\u2019, which accounted for 52% of overall use<\/li>\n<li>the percentage for \u2018drive stun\u2019 and \u2018angle drive stun\u2019 accounted for 3% of overall use<\/li>\n<li>the percentage for \u2018fired\u2019 accounted for 16% of overall use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Full details are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/police-use-of-taser-statistics-england-and-wales-january-to-june-2014\">available<\/a> and a copy will be placed in the House Library.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This written ministerial statement was laid in the House of Commons by Mike Penning and in the House of Lords by Lord Bates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}