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Prisons: Pepper Spray

Answer

We ensure all our prison officers are trained in how to use PAVA professionally, safely and lawfully and that it is only used when necessary and proportionate.

The data provided for this response is collected as internal management information and reflects the data held at the date of extraction. It is not quality assured in the same way as data prepared for publication and is subject to change.

There haves been a total of 279 incidents involving PAVA since 1^st April 2019, of those incidentsin 187 incidents PAVA was drawn and deployed and in 92 PAVA were as drawn only.

We are unable to provide this for disability as data for this is not available.

Ethnicity	Individuals Impacted	%	Drawn and Deployed	%	Drawn only	%
Asian/Asian British	33	6%	28	7%	5	3%
Black/Black British	182	35%	147	39%	35	24%
Mixed	57	11%	38	10%	19	13%
Other ethnic group	8	2%	7	2%	1	1%
White	241	46%	159	42%	82	57%
Not recorded	4	1%	2	1%	2	1%
Total	525	100%	381	100%	144	100%

Religion	Individuals Impacted	%	Drawn and Deployed	%	Drawn only	%
Buddhist	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
Christian	198	38%	131	34%	67	46%
Hindu	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
Jewish	3	1%	2	1%	1	1%
Muslim	133	25%	103	27%	30	21%
Sikh	2	0%	1	0%	1	1%
Other	12	2%	10	3%	2	1%
No religion	151	29%	112	29%	39	27%
Not recorded	26	5%	22	6%	4	3%
Total	525	100%	381	100%	144	100%

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL3792

Session

2021-22

Subjects

Prisons Pepper spray

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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