Fonte da imagem, Getty ImagesLegenda da imagem, Oficiais e agentes das Investigações de Segurança Interna (HSI) e Operações de Remoção de Execução (ERO) usariam as luvas, de acordo com uma nota do DHS.
Oficiais da Imigração e Controle Alfandegário dos EUA (ICE) podem em breve estar equipados com luvas que podem entregar choques elétricos enquanto cumprem suas funções de aplicação da lei.
The gloves can deliver up to 380 volts of electricity, roughly three times the charge of a standard US power outlet.
ICE is constantly assessing the needs of our officers in the field to ensure they have the tools and equipment necessary to safely arrest and remove criminal illegal aliens from our country," the DHS said in a statement to the BBC.
Every decision is made with careful consideration and appropriately reviewed to ensure that any technology ICE utilises is consistent with all applicable law enforcement policies and standards," it added.
Compliant Technologies LLC, which makes the gloves, told the BBC it was unable to comment on the sale. A no-bid purchase contract could be published as early as Friday, DHS said.
Os dispositivos GLOVE são ativados pressionando um botão para entregar choques e podem entregar até 30 pulsos por segundo. Eles também apresentam microprocessadores integrados que mantêm um registro de ativação.
A Compliant Technologies afirma em seu site que eles não causam lesões e são utilizados por muitas agências.
A user manual on the company's website recommends avoiding use on the elderly, small children, pregnant women and the "severely handicapped", as well as that an additional officer be present to restrain the subject while the gloves are being used.
Image source, Compliant TechnologiesImage caption, The GLOVE feature a button that is pushed to activate the shock feature.
The GLOVE manual states that the device must come in contact with a subject's skin but will function through thin clothing layers when wet.
It says users should undergo training and be recertified every two years and also asks users to take into consideration their experience and comfort level with the technology, the intended subject's actions and behaviour when interacting with officers, and the risk/benefit associated with "any level of given force.
Não se pretende competir ou substituir nenhuma ferramenta existente, mas suplementar as armas e ferramentas existentes dentro das políticas e TTPs [táticas, técnicas e procedimentos] de uma agência, afirma o manual.
According to the DHS note, GLOVE would be used by officers and agents in Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), which targets transnational criminal organisations, and Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO), which is responsible for arresting, detaining and deporting people who violate immigration laws in the US.
Some law enforcement agencies are already using the gloves but Peters said he thought the planned ICE purchase would be the largest from Compliant Technologies to date.
Civil rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have expressed alarm about law enforcement using them.
ICE spent the last year showing this country that they are willing to disregard the law and are too quick to use force, with devastating and at times fatal consequences for citizens and noncitizens alike," said Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, deputy director on policing at the ACLU.
A agência enfrentou escrutínio sobre mortes que ocorreram durante atividades de aplicação de imigração.
Recent incidents include the fatal shooting of Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas, while Colombian national Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was killed during an immigration enforcement operation in Maine.
ICE has also been under pressure to deliver President Donald Trump's deportation agenda, which includes meeting a daily target of arrests.
Now they [ICE] might be equipped with a device that allows them to deliver an electric shock with their hands by pushing a small button, in a move that might be imperceptible to those watching," Borchetta said.
Dar aos agentes de imigração um meio oculto de causar dor terrível é uma receita para mais danos ao público e menos responsabilidade.
Trump says ICE should not give up traffic stops in wake of fatal shootingsPublished15 July.
What is ICE and what powers do its agents have to use force.
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Informação baseada em material público de BBC World, reescrito pela redação ULTRA NOTÍCIAS.
