FOI 3078-25 Children tasered
Request:
I am submitting a Freedom of Information request to obtain data on children under 18 who have had a taser fired at them by police in 2024.
Can these stats be categorised by race, ethnicity and also age?
Response:
I have to advise you that Northamptonshire Police is not obliged to provide this information you have requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please take this letter as a Refusal Notice to this particular request.
Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires Northamptonshire Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt within the provisions of the Act) is required to provide you, the applicant, with a Notice which:
a) states the fact that an exemption has been applied
b) specifies the exemption in question, and
c) states why the exemption applies (if that would not otherwise be apparent)
The statutory exemption applicable to the information not disclosed is as follows:
Section 21 - Information reasonably accessible by other means
This is an Absolute Class Based Exemption and is therefore not subject to a harm or public interest test.
The information you require is readily available from the Northamptonshire Police website. Please see the following link below: