FOI 398/25 Unintentional discharging of the firearm
Enquiry Reference: FOI 398-25
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
Please answer the following questions for the calendar years of 2022, 2023 and 2024.
1) Please send me a list of all of the incidents of a police officer from your force unintentionally discharging a firearm, telling me the date of the incident, the location, the rank of the officer, the damage caused by the discharging of the firearm (e.g. a glass panel may have been shattered, but please also specify if any injuries were caused by the unintentional discharging of the firearm) and the outcome of the incident (e.g. retraining, reassigned duties, no action taken). Please also tell me if the firearm in question was a police issued firearm or a seized firearm. Tell me the type of firearm too if possible.
Having made enquiries within the Force our answer on this occasion is no information held, we have had no unintentional discharges.
The Cleveland Police response to your request is unique and it should be noted that Police Forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures to capture and record data therefore responses from Cleveland Police should not be used as a comparison with any other force response you receive.
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Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker