IMAGE PROVIDED A pair of ClearView Asset Protection’s generated low output voltage emitters, aseen on the company’s website.

HUGHESVILLE — Police and corrections officers are using a glove with a non-lethal electric pulse to prevent injury, reduce incidents and de-escalate situations quickly.

Jeff Niklaus formerly of Huntersville in Lycoming County now near Lexington, Kentucky has the business, Compliant Technologies, and came up with the technology.

It is a veteran-owned company founded in 2018.

“We exist to benefit society by providing non-lethal alternatives to those who selflessly serve,” is the company mission statement.

Specializing in the design and manufacture of non-lethal, non-injurious tools, the equipment is marketed to the military, law enforcement, corrections industry and certain vetted security companies.

These tools are not sold to the general public or to individual officers, said Lance Thomas, CEO and president of ClearView Asset Protection, where a demonstration of the flagship product known as the G.L.O.V.E. was held for media representatives along with various members of law enforcement.

The hand-fitted tool, which stands for generated low output voltage emitter, produced that desired irritating feeling beneath the skin on the lower forearm without moving up the arm and through the more vital organs of the body.

The company also offers a revolutionary new digital prison escort device and a single and multi-frequency eband restrictors – that’s a band with conductive distraction and de-escalation technology.

The manufacturer does not consider the tools weapons as they don’t cause injury, just slight pain for a few seconds that controls the situation and de-escalates further injury.

It works by putting a small amount of current out when a button on the glove is pressed and that sends out the current that stimulates the peripheral nervous system.

What’s really unique is several officers or whoever can grab the individual without fear of the jolt being conducted to them.

Through the other officers touching the suspect it enables the officer with the glove to be able to reach for an access and use his or her firearm.

As of this day the company is serving about 300 agencies in 38 states and nine countries.

So far, the maker cites more than 20,000 total uses with over 7,000 of those being real world encounters on the streets in jails, prisons, schools and hospital settings.

It feels a bit like when one would put a hand on an electric fence to give some sense of what the feeling is after several members of the press and officers tried it in a demonstration.

What’s handy is it also allows – in case they really do need further escalation – seamless weapons transition and retention while eliminating weapons confusion.

“You’re not going to necessarily reach for a gun thinking it’s a Taser” as it has occurred in the law enforcement community, Thomas said.

There also is a sense of patriotism in this product as all of the microprocessors in the compliant technology gloves are assembled in the U.S. and ClearView Assets Protection has a strong military and veteran component.

Best of all, there is not much push back from those who might assert excessive force or worry about the glove being taken off the officer and used by the suspect. The glove doesn’t slip off like that and, so far, there’s been no negative occurrences with the safety and efficacy, no injuries to date and with the 95% first grab success rate have taken individuals from resistance to compliance in under three seconds, Thomas said.