Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of offering all police officers training on the use of tasers.
The government is committed to giving the police the necessary tools to do their job. TASER® provides officers with an important tactical option when facing potentially violent situations.
The Home Office supports the use of TASER® by specially trained officers in line with national policing guidance. The number of TASER® trained officers within a force is an operational matter and is determined by chief officers in line with their respective force’s Strategic Threat and Risk Assessments.