TODAY EVENT: SHERIFF BACA UNVEILS DEVICE INTENDED TO STOP OR DECREASE INMATE ASSAULTS*** FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 2010 AT 2 PM

 

 

 

 

SHERIFF BACA UNVEILS A NEW DEVICE INTENDED TO STOP OR DECREASE INMATE ASSAULTS

 

Who:               Sheriff Lee Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department; Mike Booen, Vice President of Advanced Security and Directed Energy Systems, Raytheon Company.

 

 

What:              The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will conduct an operational evaluation of a new device intended to stop or lessen the severity of inmate assaults.  This new device, known as the Assault Intervention Device, transmits a focused, invisible millimeter wave at a suspect which causes an intolerable heating sensation.  This device will be unveiled and utilized at the Pitchess Detention Center’s North County Correction Facility.   

 

When:            Friday, August 20, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. 

                                                                                                                                   

Where:           Pitchess Detention Center’s North County Correctional Facility

                        Training Room

                        29340 The Old Road 

                        Castaic, California  91384 

                     

Note:              The device will be available for demonstration and the media is welcome to participate.

 

For further information, contact Public Information Officer Nicole Nishida at (323) 810-1973 or Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau at (323) 267-4800.           

 

           

SHB-83M-10 X     X     X      August 16, 2010