HMP Britain

In response to our Freedom of Information request, the Home Office has admitted the Taser has been used 223 times against those aged 13 – 17 between July 2007 and December 2009.

On 47 separate occasions, an electrical charge was delivered into a child subjects’ body. Over 4% of those subjected to an electric shock were children, the Home Office has acknowledged.

The figures also reveal that 3 children aged 14 have been subjected to an electrical shock of up to 50,000 volts for up to 10 seconds.

The figures were released yesterday in response to our initial Freedom of Information request in February and are available at WhatdoTheyKnow website

Unfortunately, the Home Office had protected the PDF file to disallow the extraction of data. Should you be interested, we have created a version of the data on Google Docs.

All figures refer to police forces in England & Wales

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