Category: Firearms and Conducted Energy Devices (Taser)

Gun certificates

The number of officers who a) undertook and b) passed, training required to carry a Taser in each year from 2016 to 2021 (inclusive). If you hold the data, please additionally provide the number of officers whose authority to carry a Taser was revoked in each year.

1a) The number of firearm certificates issued by your force in 2019
1b) The number of firearm certificates issued by your force in 2020
1c) The number of firearm certificates issued by your force in 2021

A full breakdown of total firearm licences currently held in the West Midlands for each firearm type.

How many times was a Taser deployed in any way and – as a separate number – how many times fired/discharged by your police force in the periods:
a) 1st April 2017 to 31st March 2018

1) How many licences were revoked by your constabulary in the years listed below?