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Richard Taylor FOI Reference: CR15518

[FOI #41937 email]

9 August 2010

Dear Mr Taylor,

Thank you for your e-mail of 14 July 2010 in which you ask for details of the URL to the figures on Taser use by the police. Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I am able to disclose the following information. The link to the latest figures on the use of Taser (up to 30 September 2009) by forces in England and Wales is:

http://tna.europarchive.org/20100413151426/http://scienceandresearch.homeoffice.gov.uk/hosdb/about-us/news/taser-quarterly-sept09.html

Previous released figures can be found at:

http://tna.europarchive.org/20100413151426/http://scienceandresearch.homeoffice.gov.uk/hosdb/about-us/news/index.html

We plan to publish the next set of figures on Taser usage later this year.

If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to the address below, quoting reference 15518. If you ask for an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.

Information Access Team

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As part of any internal review the Department's handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. If you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Yours sincerely

A Lama

Home Office