Police are looking for new “remote control” road spikes to stop fleeing cars.
Since 2008, police have been using a spiked model for the road, the Stinger Trooper, made by Chicago’s Federal Signal company, but is now on the market for a new “tire deflating device.”
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Police are looking for a new supplier for road peaks, but they want them to be controlled remotely.
Police want to replace all 2400 road spikes they currently have and have them operational by August next year.
The police tender requires the spike strips to be a minimum of 4.7m in length and can be deployed by “remote control from a safe position away from the device”.
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Police said they were unable to comment on the design or budget for the new spikes due to the tender process.
A remote-controlled comic called the NightHawk is also retractable.
Instead of throwing the nails over the road by hand, the officer places the suitcase with the strip next to the road. The officer then waits for the right moment to pull the trigger and shoots the strip across the road in the way of the approaching car.
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Police arrested a man on Rata St in Inglewood on Tuesday afternoon.
According to NightHawk’s user manual, the firing unit is set up in two seconds.
The current model in use, the Stinger Trooper, currently sells for about $500 each on eBay.
An American police magazine cost the NightHawk $3,000 in 2017 for the firing unit and a pack of ten strips.
Police have not disclosed how much money they plan to spend in total.
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The “X-Net” vehicle arrest systems, similar to those used in the military, were trialed in 2020. (File photo)
Grant Gerken, the vice president of the police association, said the remote spike strips were a “no brainer.”
He said the problem with the current manual setup of the spike strips was that officers had a short time to get to safety because they had to deploy them covertly — or immediately before the fleeing car arrived so other traffic couldn’t pass over them. run.
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Police Association Co-Vice President Grant Gerken, left, with Association President Chris Cahill. (File photo)
“This clearly places our members at an increased risk of being hit by the fleeing driver, especially if the violator tries to drive around the nails or intentionally target the officer.”
He cited the death of Porirua officer Sergeant Derek Wootten in 2008, who was killed by a fleeing member of the Mongrel Mob who shot him down while the officer was laying road spikes in Titahi Bay.
“Since then, a number of other officers have been injured or seriously injured while they were setting up road spikes,” he said.
In 2020, the police investigated the use of nets to stop fleeing drivers as a safer alternative.
Three Christchurch teenagers in a stolen car were killed in January 2019 when the fleeing teenage driver crashed into a tree while trying to dodge road spikes.