“The rate of police officers discharging a firearm remains low, particularly when compared to countries such as the United States.”
There was an increase in armed police incidents last year, according to figures.
However, it represented a drop compared to the year leading up to the coronavirus pandemic, when there were 19,393 operations. Armed officers intentionally fired a weapon just four times nationally last year – and there has been just one year in the last decade where this number reached double figures.
Most police operations do not involve the use of firearms, though armed officers are deployed in certain cases such as for incidents involving violent crime or to patrol high-risk areas. "Supposedly ‘less lethal’ weapons like TASERs can and do kill – earlier this year, an officer was charged with grievous bodily harm after he shot a young black man, Jordan Walker-Brown, with a TASER, leaving him paralysed from the chest down."
This was an increase of seven per cent from the year before, and more than double the 17,000 in 2017-18, when data is first available.
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