Written statement to Parliament

Police use of taser statistics England and Wales: January 2012 and 2013

This written ministerial statement was laid in the House of Commons by Damian Green and in the House of Lords by Lord Taylor of Holbeach.

• From: Home Office and The Rt Hon Damian Green
• Published: 27 March 2014

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Delivered on: 27 March 2014

The Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice (Damian Green):

I am today publishing the statistics on police use of taser in England and Wales for 6 monthly periods between January 2012 and December 2013.

These show that:

• total police use of taser has increased from 2012 to 2013, continuing the trend seen since 2009
• the proportion of taser where the ‘highest use’ was ‘fired’ decreased between 2012 and 2013 – accounting for 17% of uses in 2013
• the most common ‘highest use’ of a taser was ‘red dot’ in each of the last 2 years, accounting for just over half of all uses

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

Published 27 March 2014