Unintentional firearms use

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/002822/B

 Version Date: 20/02/2025

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

The Alliance Firearms Department have provided the following information.

For years 2022, 2023 and 2024 we recorded zero unintentional discharges.