Police in India have come up with a way to lengthen the long arms of the law in the era of social distancing: giant tongs.
For police, the new coronavirus poses a dilemma: How do you apprehend a suspect in the era of social distancing?In what looks more like a scene from a cops-and-robbers cartoon, this week police in the northern city of Chandigarhof an officer demonstrating how to use a 6-foot pole with a two-pronged claw at the end to detain a suspect.
The officer, wearing a surgical mask, clamps the device around a man's waist and forces him into a pickup truck.— Wasiq "We call it a 'social distancing clamp' or a 'lockdown-breaker catcher,'"head constable Gurdeep Singh told NPR by phone from Chandigarh Police headquarters."This is especially used in instances where we suspect that someone has the coronavirus and they are not cooperating with us.
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