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Five police incidents involved tasers

Electric gun records revealed

Tasers have been used on five different occasions in the Isle of Man in the last three years.

The Isle of Man Constabulary revealed the information, following a Freedom of Information Request.

Broken down, the findings show tasers have been discharged twice this year so far.

Once was on a dog in July, and another on a person last month.

And tasers were discharged twice last year, once in July and once in December.

Before that a taser wasn't used since January 2015.

The FOI also showed that aside from the dog in Onchan, all of the incidents took place in Douglas.

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