Officers Successfully Deploy BolaWrap to Help Restrain Subject Having a Mental Health Crisis in LaGrange, Georgia

TEMPE, Ariz., Sept. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wrap Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: WRAP) (the “Company”), a global leader in innovative public safety technologies and services, today shared new agency body cam footage provided by the LaGrange Police Department demonstrating a successful outcome from the deployment of the BolaWrap^® Remote Restraint device.

On September 16, 2022, officers of the LaGrange Police Department in Georgia responded to a call of a subject at a facility for a mental health evaluation. The subject was refusing to be transported to another facility. At this point the subject made statements to officers on-scene that he would fight them and the county when they arrived. As the subject took a few steps toward one officer, another officer deployed the BolaWrap to the subject’s upper thigh area, resulting in an immediate improved response from the subject. The subject was startled by the deployment, allowing officers to take the subject safely into custody. The subject was then transported to another facility without further incident.

“The use of the BolaWrap resulted in our officers being able to take this subject into custody without injury enabling the officers to secure him quickly in handcuffs without escalation of force,” said Lieutenant Eric Lohr of the LaGrange Police Department in Georgia.

The body cam footage can be viewed here. Previous body cam footage of BolaWrap deployments provided by the LaGrange Police Department and other agencies can be viewed here.

About Wrap
Wrap 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.

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BolaWrap, Wrap and Wrap Reality are trademarks of Wrap Technologies, Inc. All other trade names used herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective holders.

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