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The tool is described by its maker as like "remote handcuffs" but some have questioned its use in the New York mental health call.

TEMPE, Ariz., Feb. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wrap Technologies, Inc. (the “Company” or “WRAP”) (Nasdaq: WRAP), an innovator of modern policing solutions, reported the successful deployment of the BolaWrap by the Buffalo Police Department while responding to a mental health call of a woman in crisis on Friday. In September of 2020, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and the Buffalo Police Department held a press conference to discuss and demonstrate BolaWrap for the public. In October of 2020, Mayor Brown and Common Council President Darius Pridgen announced the launch of ...

Buffalo Police used a BolaWrap to help in a mental health crisis.

KSL TV LAYTON – Some Utah police departments gathered in Layton where a company demonstrated a new nonlethal tool that could be used to constrain suspects. It's called the BolaWrap and would be used in specific situations designed to help police stop people who are suffering a personal crisis without doing any harm. It sounds a bit like a gun when it is deployed. A cord with hooks on the ends is ejected, wrapping snuggly around the suspect's torso or legs. "Officers can deploy the device remotely, from anywhere between 10-to-25 feet, and safely detain a person," said Becky Crannis-Curl, a m...

Richmond Heights police obtain new restraint device that ties suspects; council seeks to identify those who interrupted Jan. 12 meeting Jeff Piorkowski, cleveland.com RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Ohio — The city’s police department has a new tool in its toolbox designed to painlessly restrain suspects while preventing them from getting away. Richmond Heights Police Chief Thomas Wetzel told City Council’s Safety Committee during its online meeting Tuesday (Jan. 19) about the department’s latest purchase — the Bola Wrap. The RHPD is one of the first departments in the area to pur...