Police: Stun Guns
(asked on 23rd October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times tasers have been used by the police in each London borough in each of the last five years.
The Home Office does not hold information centrally on the number of times Taser have been used by the police in each London borough over the last five years.
The Home Office publishes information on the number of times Taser have been used by police forces. The following table shows the number of times Taser has been used over the last five years by the London Metropolitan police and City of London police force.
Taser use by forces in London between 2010 and 2014 | ||||||
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | ||
City of London | 5 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 20 | |
Metropolitan | 359 | 378 | 755 | 2,110 | 1,942 | |
Total | 364 | 385 | 767 | 2,123 | 1,962 | |
Source: Police use of Taser, England and Wales | ||||||
Notes: | ||||||
1. Since 2009 there was a continual roll out of Taser which saw all forces using Taser in 2013 | ||||||
2. Care should be taken when making comparisons between forces on the level of Taser use. This is due to the varying data quality across the forces and that the level of Taser use it likely to be highly correlated with the size of the population in the force area. Forces will also have different policies regarding Taser use. | ||||||
3. There are a number of factors that may lead to an increase or a decrease in the use of Taser. These figures should not be used to interpret how any single factor is changing, for example, the level of crime. | ||||||