Yes the link is now up - FCORD2016 Chapter 27 Discussion Document Seizure and Handling preparing a Best Practice Model.
Cheers Greg - I was going to say we don't tend to run into many… however, just last week I was advised a first responder received the 'shock' of their life when trying to triage a device which was a phone/tazer! I guess we'll have to keep on our toes! 8)
@trewmte
I don't know.
I would draw a line between firearms and potentially harmful devices.
The Daily Mail article
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is seemingly without a date and seemingly contains a couple (or more) assumptions.
It seems to me like very, very old, most probably dating back to 2000 or so, i.e. being in line with
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The description seems made by a journalist that hasn't ever seen the device and that has not really an idea of how it works.
The device that is represented on the cover
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seems also to me an artists representation.
While I believe such devices may represent a serious problem "on the street", allow me to doubt that any officer cannot, once he/she has the device in his/her hands easily understand how it is a masked handgun.
There are some actual photos (seemingly provided by the Italian Carabinieri in 2008) of such a device (the same that is represented in the stillshots of the movie on the document you posted)
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The same images are used on the (Daily Mail) article
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with the addition of the "bullets fired through the antenna by pressing keypad numbers five to eight" 😯
A (poor) video of the operation of the device - possibly the same from which you got the stillshots) can be found here
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The thing described in the Daily Mail article as "winding mechanism made to look like an aerial" and called "hand crank" in the drawing seems to me like an easy giveaway.
Most sources I found however mention how (obviously) the device is much heavier than a real phone (unsurprisingly as seemingly they are a small block of steel.
The new "Ideal Conceal" weapon, seemingly needs to be flipped open to operate and even when closed does not pretend to be a fake smartphone
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only to be a black *something* with dimensions similar to those of a smartphone, and again it will weight a lot more than your typical smartphone, again there is no way that an examiner cannot - even without any previous training - recognize it as a handgun.
The case of a hidden blade could be again a serious danger when stopping/arresting a suspect and seizing it, but the device in itself is far from representing a dangerous item for the examiner, the (lousy) photo of the Nokia with a blade bolted on seems like something one has made in his/her own garage, and quite frankly , the case for the iPhone here
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is as dangerous as any small sized utility knife, there is the risk, through mishandling, to cut one's little finger, but comeon ) calling that a threat is a little overboard.
Both the "pepper spray" and "taser like" thingies are IMHO instead stealthy enough to trick at first sight an examiner, so the recommendation to be careful when handling seized smartphones is a very sound one.
Hypothetically instead of the relatively innocuous pepper spray, the reservoir might contain a lethal gas, the idea to put the device into a sealed bag before handling is not bad at all.
About the "taser like" device, it is probably the most dangerous, in the sense that very likely the "pepper spray" one is operated through a mechanical trigger whilst the "taser like" is likely to be activated by a sequence of "normal" key presses, though I believe that both should have some form of "safety" i..e. it shouldn't be that easy to trigger them by mistake. ?
I would however add a warning to never press 9 when holding an Ericsson JB988
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jaclaz
Yes the link is now up - FCORD2016 Chapter 27 Discussion Document Seizure and Handling preparing a Best Practice Model.
Cheers Greg - I was going to say we don't tend to run into many… however, just last week I was advised a first responder received the 'shock' of their life when trying to triage a device which was a phone/tazer! I guess we'll have to keep on our toes! 8)
DCS1094 Thanks for the good feedback and good news first responder wasn't hurt.
Greater Manchester Police GMP found in 2015 a Kelin K95 during a seizure procedure
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