Metropolitan Police: Stun Guns

(asked on 22nd March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of adults in Hornsey and Wood Green constituency who were tasered by the Metropolitan Police from January 2022 to January 2023 by (a) age and (b) ethnicity.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 27th March 2023

The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of incidents where a CED (Conducted Energy Device; Taser) was used, by the age and ethnicity of the individual involved, in the ‘Police use of force, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here:

Police use of force statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

These data are collected by police force area only. Data for lower levels of geography, such as Parliamentary Constituencies, are not collected.

Data on the number of incidents involving CED by police force area (including the Metropolitan police force area) by officer perceived age group and officer perceived ethnicity for the year ending 31 March 2022 are available in the open data table that accompanies the release here:

Police use of force statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

CED use includes where the CED was discharged (drive-stun, fired and angle drive-stun) and not discharged (drawn, aimed, red-dotted and arced). The open data table presents whether a CED was used and the ‘highest’ use in columns BR and BS.

Data covering 1 April 2022 to 31 January 2023 have not yet been collected by the Home Office. Annual data covering the year ending 31 March 2023 will be published in late 2023.

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