Wrap Shares Body Cam Footage of Successful Prevention of Escalation with BolaWrap 150 Deployment on a Call to a Subject with a Knife
July 19 2022 - 9:07AM
Wrap Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: WRAP) (the
“Company”), a global leader in innovative public safety
technologies and services, today shared new agency body cam footage
demonstrating the successful outcome from the deployment of a
BolaWrap 150 remote restraint device.
On June 30, 2022, officers of the Avon Police Department in
Colorado responded as a mutual aid assist to the Eagle County
Sheriff's Office, an adjoining jurisdiction, to a report of a
subject entering a gas station, armed with a knife, and stating
that he was going to kill the clerk. The male subject then backed
into another vehicle as he fled the scene in his vehicle. After a
short search, Avon Police Officers located the subject parked on
the shoulder of a roadway. The subject exited from his vehicle and
refused to comply with officer commands, advancing in a threatening
manner toward one of the responding officers.
Officers gave loud verbal commands to gain the subjects
compliance. A second officer then approached the subject from
behind and coordinated the safe deployment of a BolaWrap 150 device
to detain the subject. When the subject did not respond to the
verbal commands, the BolaWrap 150 was deployed to the subject’s
torso, restricting the subject’s arms, and preventing further
escalation.
The subject was startled by the deployment, allowing officers to
take the subject into physical custody. Officers were able to
safely secure the subject quickly in handcuffs without any injury
or escalation of force.
“Through the support of the Avon Town Council, we have recently
deployed BolaWrap 150’s to all of our officers, in ongoing efforts
to deescalate use of force situations, as much as humanly
possible,” said Chief Greg Daly of the Avon Police Department in
Colorado. “This event is a great example of restraint used to
detain a potentially violent subject who was advancing on and who
was disregarding lawful commands from our officers. Ultimately, we
could have lawfully used higher levels of force to his resistance,
but we were able to detain the subject without any injury to the
subject or to the officers.... a win, win.”
“We’re excited to share this new body cam footage of the safe
outcome for the officers using our BolaWrap 150 device,” said Wrap
CEO, TJ Kennedy. “We’re glad to see this video which shows how the
officers showed the safe use of the BolaWrap helping to prevent
escalation in this dangerous encounter while also preventing any
injury to the subject while quickly being safely brought into
custody. We continue to be impressed by our law enforcement
partners at the Avon Police Department and their commitment to
leveraging innovative solutions to the complicated situations
they’re faced with each day.”
The body cam footage can be viewed here. Previous body cam
footage of BolaWrap deployments can be viewed here.
All suspects are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a
court of law.
About WrapWrap Technologies (Nasdaq: WRAP) is a
global leader in innovative public safety technologies and
services. Wrap develops creative solutions to complex issues and
empowers public safety officials to protect and serve their
communities through its portfolio of advanced technology and
training solutions. Wrap’s BolaWrap® Remote Restraint device
is a patented, hand-held pre-escalation and apprehension tool that
discharges a Kevlar® tether to temporarily restrain uncooperative
suspects and persons in crisis from a distance. Through its many
field uses and growing adoption by agencies across the globe,
BolaWrap is proving to be an effective tool to help law enforcement
safely detain persons without injury or the need to use higher
levels of force. Wrap Reality, the Company’s virtual reality
training system, is a fully immersive training simulator and
comprehensive public safety training platform providing first
responders with the discipline and practice in methods of
de-escalation, conflict resolution, and use-of-force to better
perform in the field. Wrap’s headquarters are in Tempe, Arizona.
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