SOUTH BEND — “Wrap, wrap, wrap,” South Bend Police Officer Brian Meador yelled out before deploying the department's new non-lethal restraining device, the BolaWrap, on a volunteer. Two ends of a cord ...

The Buffalo Police Department in New York has deployed BolaWrap for the first time, using the restraint tool last week to subdue a woman during a mental health call. On Friday, officers responded to a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco police may consider utilizing a new tool that's described as 'flying handcuffs.' It's a remote-restraint device known as the BolaWrap designed to be a non-lethal ...

May 22—PLATTSBURGH — It's billed as akin to "remote handcuffs." Multiple local police departments attended a training this week on the BolaWrap, "a hand-held remote restraint device that discharges an ...

RACINE -- Kenosha police are using a new tool right from Batman's belt -- a new device meant to provide law enforcement agencies an alternative when responding to mental health calls. The device, ...

BolaWrap looks like something out of Batman, but it could soon be a standard tool for American police officers. “It fires out an 8-foot Kevlar tether from a distance of 10 to 25 feet that will wrap ...

MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE. IT SOUNDS LIKE A GUNSHOT, BUT IT'S FAR FROM LETHAL. THE BOLAWRAP WAS DEVELOPED TO SAFELY RESTRAIN PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN MENTAL CRISIS WHILE MAINTAINING A SAFE DISTANCE. >> ...

MADISON (WKOW) — The Madison Police Department is considering a new non-lethal device. It is designed to restrain someone without hurting them, unlike a Taser device. The Bolawrap 100 looks like ...

BEAUFORT, S.C. (TND/WKRC) - Deadly police encounters have seized national headlines and ignited a fierce debate about the use of force by law enforcement. But there’s a new tool designed to help ...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. (KABC) -- Westminster police will be the first department in Orange County to start using the "BolaWrap," a new handheld device that could result in fewer officer-involved ...

Los Angeles police will continue testing a tether restraint designed to help immobilize suspects from a distance — known as the BolaWrap — after an initial six-month pilot program produced too little ...

Two hundred Los Angeles police officers will be trained to use a new gadget designed to snare a person by wrapping them in a cord, officials say. The BolaWrap, recently adopted by several other forces ...