Sioux Falls: Remote Gas Deployment Through a Locked Door
Three or four callouts this year resolved with the remote gas deployment system instead of hand-thrown or launched chemical agents. On one, the Vantage pushed through a locked apartment door, deployed gas in the living room, and the suspect dropped the knife and surrendered.
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Transcript
The biggest advantage that we have is the gas deployment. We use it quite often. In the last three or four call-outs that we had this year, we deployed chemical agents with the remote gas deployment system, and it worked for us very well. Instead of guessing where he might be and in the past, we used to hand deploy or use tomahawks to deploy our chemical agents. Now we can drive that chemical agent directly to where the subject or suspect is located.
On one of the call-outs, we were actually able to drive the Vantage through a locked door. It was a hollowed-out apartment door, but it still worked. We were able to push the bottom part of the door open, and we were able to deploy the Vantage into a closed-off room, essentially. And we were able to deploy gas and get the suspect to come out, where a drone, we wouldn't be able to do that. My partner was actually driving.
I was deploying the gas. We were actually able to drive the Vantage through the kitchen, straight up into the living room area where the suspect was at and deployed right there, and it was immediately successful. He came out, threw the knife, and just surrendered. Pretty much laid down on the ground on his own. So, I would say that 70% to 80%, probably 90% of our gas deployments end this type of situation.