Next time you have to put cuffs on someone in a tuxedo — I’m looking at you, James Bond — be sure to look at your subject’s cufflinks.
And although we are entering into the holiday season, which tends to be chock full of ‘black tie’ events and other fancy dress parties, our subject need not even be in a tux — there are lots of folks out there who wear cufflinks on their sleeves on a daily basis (the word I’m thinking of rhymes with ‘shrimps’ and/or ‘wimps’).
Sparrows — a Canadian “manufacturer of specialty and quality lock pick tools” according to their website — now offers something they cleverly call the Uncuff Link (ha, ha).
In all seriousness, we have to believe these are a legitimate threat in the hands of the wrong people, and for just $60 you can bet the bad guys will be ordering theirs this holiday season.
So check the cufflinks.
I received the above officer safety alert from three of my contacts within the span of about two hours (Note to Police1 Members: Send me an email with any and all officer safety tips you think I should pass along to officers here on the site) and I knew right away we needed to post this in the LEO-only section of the site.
By bizarre happenstance, at the exact time I was writing this tip, my very good friend Chuck Remsberg was writing this one about a bracelet containing a handcuff key. A couple of years ago, I wrote about the ‘copycat’ manufacturer who was integrating hidden handcuff keys into their imitation SurvivalStraps.
We’ve seen cuff keys concealed in zippers and all sorts of other strange places, and it’s abundantly clear that inventors are not stopping in their efforts to innovate further on this idea. Watch out, out there.
