How do police deal with amputees?

MrMoonX said:
Why? They transport prisoners cuffed to officers all the time in prison
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Prisoners will have one pair of handcuffs binding both hands as usual then another pair connected to the escorting guard. The handcuff on the guard's wrist is over a protective loop to prevent injury.
 
^^^ what he said ^^^

Plus, the cuffs are chain linked so allow movement whereas cops have rigid cuffs meaning any movement is directly transferred to the other cuff twisting it as well.
 
Soviet said:
Prisoners will have one pair of handcuffs binding both hands as usual then another pair connected to the escorting guard. The handcuff on the guard's wrist is over a protective loop to prevent injury.
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Nope! As a former prison officer they rarely double cuff, only if there is a clear risk, female prisoners are never double cuffed, the long chain cuffs are only used for toilets and hospital beds
 
It's one of those thing's you will rarely, if ever, come across. And if you were part of the tiny proportion of officers who did, you hope they would be cooperative. If they were cooperative, give them a good search, stick em in the cage and keep a good eye on them.

If you happened to be the unlucky officer who comes across an uncooperative, one armed man cuff him to his belt, make sure he is searched well and keep a good eye on him in the cage.
 
Crizzy said:
I was always under the impression that handcuffing someone to an object or another officer was a very bad idea, but if it can be justified....

I remember a story of some coppers in the US who were transporting a subject in the back of their car, he was cuffed to the front and was able to yank up the handbrake killing one of the officers. I guess you have to assess all the impact factors such as this when deciding where or if to cuff someone.
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Happened in this Country too - this is why people should be handcuffed to the rear when being escorted in a car.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1521936/Soldier-killed-policeman-by-pulling-handbrake.html
 
Andy90 said:
Happened in this Country too - this is why people should be handcuffed to the rear when being escorted in a car.
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Indeed, if they're a high risk and I can't get a van, then it's rear stack in rear passenger seat with another officer sat behind me.
 
its been a long time since i was i na police car but im sure i remember there being a screen/divider like a taxi between me in the back and the front?

i remember the officer very kindly using the break sharply to smack my head into when i gave the wrong directions for the way home.
 
Von Smallhausen said:
No Tefal, it was a taxi and not a police car. You had too much to drink and became confused. ;)

I've never seen a UK police car with a divider.
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definitely a perspex screen in the back. or maybe mesh. mgiht be a welsh police thing? think it was one of the estate style ones rather than a saloon car one.

hjmm maybe walk past the police station later an try an see what the cars are like :p

nah itt was the police, i got a right *******ing from my mum the next day for having to answer the door to them.

My dad though though just laughed his arse off at me :p
 
I answer your question with a question,

What possible trouble could the poor individual get themselves in, if they had no hands?
 
Tefal said:
definitely a perspex screen in the back. or maybe mesh. mgiht be a welsh police thing? think it was one of the estate style ones rather than a saloon car one.

hjmm maybe walk past the police station later an try an see what the cars are like :p

nah itt was the police, i got a right *******ing from my mum the next day for having to answer the door to them.

My dad though though just laughed his arse off at me :p
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North Wales Police do have plastic bucket seats in the rear and a mesh divider separating the front from the back seats - very good idea imo - very useful when the area you are in is very rural like N.Wales.
 
TommyV said:
I answer your question with a question,

What possible trouble could the poor individual get themselves in, if they had no hands?
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Are you suggesting that an amputee, multiple or otherwise, is automatically exempt from committing an offence because of their disability?

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Tefal said:
its been a long time since i was i na police car but im sure i remember there being a screen/divider like a taxi between me in the back and the front?

i remember the officer very kindly using the break sharply to smack my head into when i gave the wrong directions for the way home.
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Tefal said:
definitely a perspex screen in the back. or maybe mesh. mgiht be a welsh police thing? think it was one of the estate style ones rather than a saloon car one.
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Sounds like they put you in the boot of a police dog estate car where the dog would normally be....:p
 
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Andy90 said:
North Wales Police do have plastic bucket seats in the rear and a mesh divider separating the front from the back seats - very good idea imo - very useful when the area you are in is very rural like N.Wales.
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Every days a school day. I didn't know that Andy. Never seen them in police cars, certainly not in the north east anyway.
 
I know our force looked into cars with bucket seats in the rear with cut-outs for cuffs. So they must have been demoed/presented to the UK area. Never seen one in a fleet though :D
 
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