What Safeguards Are In Place?

Police Scotland follows the College of Policing’s Code of Practice on Armed Policing and Police use of Less Lethal Weapons. This guides and informs how officers throughout the country utilise Taser devices in certain scenarios.

Every time a Taser is used by a Police Scotland officer, a Use of Force report is completed to document the need for its use and enable auditing of Taser deployment. In Scotland, Tasers have been used by Armed Policing Unit since 2015. In the past six years, Tasers were discharged 25 times by the Armed Policing Unit.