Accidental discharge of a firearm 371/2025

FOI Reference: 371/2025

Request

Please answer the following questions for the calendar years of 2022, 2023 and 2024. 

1) Please send me a list of all of the incidents of a police officer from your force unintentionally discharging a firearm, telling me the date of the incident, the location, the rank of the officer, the damage caused by the discharging of the firearm (e.g. a glass panel may have been shattered, but please also specify if any injuries were caused by the unintentional discharging of the firearm) and the outcome of the incident (e.g. retraining, reassigned duties, no action taken). Please also tell me if the firearm in question was a police issued firearm or a seized firearm. Tell me the type of firearm too if possible. 

Response:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does not hold the information requested due to the fact that there were zero (0) recorded incidents of a police officer having unintentionally discharging a firearm within the timeframe specified.

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 11/04/2025)