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Firearms and less lethal weapons

See the statistics on shootings by police officers in England and Wales since 1985

The IPCC is currently not conducting any research in this area. Past PCA reports can be found below:

30 January 2003
Firearms Report 2003 (pdf 547k)
Review of shootings by police in England and Wales 1998 to 2001.

March 2000
CS Spray - Increasing Public Safety? (pdf 143k)
Report on CS spray being an asset to safer policing.