Tasers (1544A/21)
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
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?
List all the firearms that were seized by West Midlands Police between February and July 2020 and February and July 2021.
1) How many times your police officers fired/discharged Tasers at people (i.e. in drive stun mode, angled drive stun mode or fired so that the barbs are discharged at the subject)?
Description of information sought: I am hoping to find out the number of shootings that have occurred in the West Midlands over the past two years. I would like a localised breakdown of the stats per borough. I understand there are time constraints with FOI work, so if possible, please prioritize points 1 and 2.
Please provide the number of officers trained in Taser across the force, and the number of those in their probationary period (if none, whether there are plans to extend Taser training to probationary officers).
Use Of Force
The number of times a Conducted Energy Device (eg Taser) was deployed by officers between January 1 and June 24, 2020, including the number of times the weapons were discharged. Please provide the ethnicity of those against whom the CEDs were deployed.
How many armed officers are there employed in the force?
Taser