The report raises concerns over the increase of incidents involving children aged 11 to 17 which rose from 938 in 2017/18 to 2,795 in 2019/20.
There has also been an increase in the number of children aged under 11 involved in taser incidents from 16 in 2017/18 to 23 in 2019/20.
Tasers were only discharged in 138 of these cases, the report states, none of which involved under-11s.
The increase in the use of taser on young people was highlighted in 2014 by the Independent Police Complaints Commission’s review of incidents over the previous decade.
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