US Immigration agents to use electric shock gloves
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be given gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks.
Officers and agents could be fitted with the “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” by March, according to a notice published on Monday by the Department of Homeland Security.
The devices, called Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter (G.L.O.V.E.), have been used in recent years by some jails and police departments in the US.
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million (£14.8 million) to purchase thousands of them, the Associated Press reported.
