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When you're transporting suspects or prisoners, you need the right tools to keep them from causing problems. View our photo gallery of these 11 restraints that include traditional handcuffs, zipcuffs, control straps, chains, and an immobilization system.
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Video obtained by ABC News shows George Zimmerman the night he was detained by Sanford (Fla.) Police officers after fatally shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Source: CNN
Read More →A 22-year-old Indiana man who stole a police cruiser took the vehicle on a joyride and radioed dispatchers to ask how to get out of the handcuffs. Police later recovered the squad in a detention pond.
Read More →While behind bars, I honed my skills with on-the-job training. I learned how to slip out of my handcuffs, cut metal, and smuggle knives, hacksaws, and drugs. Most of all, I learned how to manipulate, intimidate, and confuse deputies who were still learning how to be cops.
Read More →It took four Colton (Calif.) Police officers and four sets of handcuffs to subdue a naked, 300-pound bodybuilder who had attacked a couple at their home.
Read More →An Albuquerque Public Schools officer who used handcuffs on an autistic 7-year-old has been placed on paid leave.
Read More →An Albuquerque Public Schools officer who used handcuffs on an autistic 7-year-old has been placed on paid leave, and the incident has sparked a debate about how to restrain children.
Read More →Zachary A. Keilman walked into Lowell Post and told Sgt. Alan Jamerson he believed he was wanted on a warrant. He then showed the sergeant his wrists, which each had a handcuff and a cut chain attached to them.
Read More →Gotcha has designed a totally new handcuff for law enforcement that's made in the USA. Gotcha's patented cuffs are designed to be lighter, stronger, more secure, and easier to use than any other restraint. The cuffs feature the first new cuff locking mechanism since 1862.
Read More →A prisoner escapes from a West Bloomfield (Mich.) Township Police squad car, after wriggling free from his handcuffs.
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