Discharge of CED / Taser Devices 2019 to 2022
Keywords
Discharge, CED, Taser, Device, Record, Part, Body, Conducted, Energy, Contact, Discharged, Instances, Hit, Chest, Area, Firing, Angle, Drive-stun, Functions, Force, Forms, Sections.
Publication Number
PUB 1395
FOI Reference Number
16663
Request Title
Discharge of CED / Taser Devices 2019 to 2022
Date Range
01 January 2019 to 01 January 2022
Information Requested
1) Does your force record which part(s) of the body a conducted energy device (CED, e.g. TASER) makes contact with when discharged?
2) If so, I would like the number of instances where one of your officers has hit or made contact with an individual’s chest area with a CED/TASER from 1 January 2019 until the 1st January 2022. If this requires effort to separate the results or you do not have data for that exact date range, please send the raw data.
3) Can I also have total number of times that a CED/TASER has been discharged by your officers from 1 January 2019 until the 1st January 2022? NB: ‘Discharge’ should include all instances of firing, as well as the use of drive-stun and angle drive-stun functions. As before, if this requires effort to separate the results or you do not have data for that exact date range, please send the raw data.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full Disclosure
Information Correct as at
31 January 2022
Date of Disclosure
08 February 2022
Related Documents/Links
Policy on Single Crewed Taser Use
FOI 16663 Response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the following data:
Caveat: The data is correct as at 31 January 2022.
1. Does your force record which part(s) of the body a conducted energy device (CED, e.g. TASER) makes contact with when discharged?
Yes. On the Use of Force Forms, the body is divided into sections and there is a field for each of these sections for a Taser Officer to record where the CED made contact.
2. If so, I would like the number of instances where one of your Officers has hit or made contact with an individual’s chest area with a CED/TASER from 01 January 2019 until the 01 January 2022. If this requires effort to separate the results or you do not have data for that exact date range, please send the raw data.
Between the dates stated, there were 49 (forty-nine) instances of a CED making contact with the subject’s chest.
3. Can I also have total number of times that a CED/TASER has been discharged by your Officers from 01 January 2019 until the 01 January 2022? NB: ‘Discharge’ should include all instances of firing, as well as the use of drive-stun and angle drive-stun functions. As before, if this requires effort to separate the results or you do not have data for that exact date range, please send the raw data.
Between the dates stated, there were 154 Taser discharges.
Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.
You may also find the below links of interest:
Police use of TASER ® X26 conducted energy devices statistics