ITV News can exclusively reveal the increase in the number of officers on patrol carrying taser stun guns. 

Avon and Somerset bring in 200 more tasers after 'alarming rise' in assaults

Avon and Somerset Police say a misconduct hearing will now take place following the clearing of acting Sgt Claire Boddie of assault

Police statement following Taser trial

Claire Boddie believes she used reasonable force when she Tasered 64-year-old Judah Adunbi in Bristol and denied assault by beating.

An Avon and Somerset Police officer has been charged with common assault after an incident in which a race relations worker was Tasered.

Police have tasered a 63 year old race-relations worker after wrongly believing he was a wanted man.

Officers attended an address in Warminster shortly before midnight on 26 October to a report of a man who had caused himself harm.

Experts are warning of a 'complete lack of consistency' among police forces in the roll out of cameras for officers using Tasers

More police in Devon and Cornwall could be armed with Tasers to protect them from assaults. The force is reviewing their use.