Arriving police officers were reportedly forced to harm a little girl with an electric shock gun who was reportedly armed with a hammer and refused to take the floor when asked to calm down.
Police used a 50,000-volt stun gun on the ten-year-old child when they arrived at the scene and faced the little girl threatening her own mother with a hammer, writes The Sun newspaper. To know that such a young child has never been harmed in Britain by shock… until now.
According to the legends, shortly after they arrived in the area of the garden house surrounded by a fence, the police found the child and his mother and immediately called the little girl to put down the gun in her hand, but she disobeyed. One person present at the incident said the child was in a terribly upset state. One of the patrols then called hard to throw the hammer immediately, and when he didn’t, he was shot at with the shock pistol.
No one was reportedly in any trouble, but it is not known if the little girl was eventually taken in by the police to talk to her for a bit. The family has filed a complaint about the incident and the matter is now being investigated by the Independent Police Conduct Office (IOPC).
An IOPC spokesman said: "There have been complaints since the incident, so we will now look more closely at what exactly happened to determine what further action may be needed." Mick Neville, a former met detective, and the superintendent said the use of stun guns against a person of this age was “extremely rare and very shocking”.
The use of stun guns in police forces in England and Wales reached record highs in 2019. Between April 1, 2018, and March 31, 2019, they had to be caught on someone more than 22,000 times in total, but they were only baked 2,500 times. Fortunately, in most of these situations, there is no need for the police to use them, just catch the person.
