Taser use by police rises by 36% in a year possibly due to more officers carrying the weapons
Tasers were used by police in 32,000 incidents last year, rocketing by more than a third on the year before. In the year to March, the stun guns were deployed 88 times a day on average in England and Wales, Home Office figures reveal – up 36.7 per cent from 23,451 deployments the previous year. … Read more