Taser has been available for use by authorised firearms officers in all forces since 2004. At 31 March 2008, there were 6,780 authorised firearms officers in England and Wales.
In extending the use of Taser to specially trained units the Home Office has so far provided £8 million to the National Policing Improvement Agency to support the purchase of 7,000 Tasers which have been distributed to forces. The breakdown by force is in the following table.
Police force Tasers requested and provided Avon and Somerset Constabulary 130 Bedfordshire Constabulary 90 British Transport Police 400 Cambridgeshire Constabulary 150 Cheshire Constabulary 82 City of London Police 30 Cleveland Constabulary 140 Cumbria Constabulary 50 Derbyshire Constabulary 250 Devon and Cornwall Constabulary 325 Dorset Constabulary 100 Durham Constabulary 120 Dyfed Powys Police 80 Essex Police 60 Gloucestershire Constabulary 50 Greater Manchester Police 550 Gwent Constabulary 100 Hampshire Constabulary 100 Hertfordshire Constabulary 110 Humberside Police 100 Kent Constabulary 112 Lancashire Constabulary 200 Leicestershire Constabulary 110 Lincolnshire Police 364 Merseyside Police 365 Metropolitan Police 150 Norfolk Constabulary 100 Northamptonshire Police 36 Northumbria Police 88 North Wales Police 130 North Yorkshire Police 100 Nottinghamshire Constabulary 200 South Wales Constabulary 120 South Yorkshire Police 70 Staffordshire Police 98 Suffolk Constabulary 100 Surrey Police 250 Sussex Police 50 Thames Valley Police 100 Warwickshire Constabulary 78 West Mercia Constabulary 70 West Midlands Police 600 West Yorkshire Police 327 Wiltshire Constabulary 95 SOCA 70 Total 7,000