FOI 432/25

REQUEST

I am submitting a Freedom of Information request to obtain data on children under 18 who have had a taser fired at them by police from 2019 to 2024.

Could you please categorise these statistics in a table format using the following requirements:

1. The amount of children had a taser fired at them in each individual year.

Then categorised by:

2. The child's race and ethnicity.
3. Their age, if there's not a specific age was the range between 11-17 or 0-10.
4. The reason why the taser was fired, for example, serious or aggravated resistance, aggressive resistance or active resistance.
5. Was the child found to have a weapon on them? If so, what type of weapon?
6. Was the child injured by the taser being fired.

RESPONSE

We have consulted with our force analysts who have provided the following information in relation to your request. Please note, we were only able to retrieve data from 1^st May 2023.

Question 1

2 individuals have been subject to taser since 1^st May 2023.

Question 2-6