Announcement • Sep 03

Wrap Technologies Completes New Law Enforcement Doctrine And Training Methodology For Operationalizing De-Escalation Using BolaWrap 150

Wrap Technologies, Inc. had completed a new law enforcement doctrine and training methodology designed to operationalize de-escalation using the BolaWrap 150, an instrument of restraint and rescue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has classified as neither a firearm nor an 'any other weapon.' The new curriculum has been submitted for independent validation in preparation for applying for California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) certification, an important step toward establishing a standardized methodology through which officers can be trained to apply de-escalation principles operationally, not simply verbally. The company believes standardized, recognized training can reduce barriers to agency adoption by bringing technology, doctrine and training together within a repeatable operational framework. Agencies can evaluate BolaWrap 150 together with a defined doctrine and training methodology, rather than as a standalone piece of equipment requiring the agency to build an operational framework around it. Anticipated digital delivery through Wrap Tactics creates the potential for continuing education, refresher training and recurring digital training economics alongside device and cassette revenue. WRAP can engage agencies around how they operationalize de-escalation when verbal techniques are insufficient, supported by technology, doctrine, training and measurement. A standardized training framework can support broader deployment across patrol, Crisis Intervention Teams, behavioral and mental health response, supervisors and other operational users. California is intended to be an important first step toward a framework WRAP can seek to replicate across additional states, agencies and other law enforcement training environments. If successful, WRAP believes this model could expand the number of officers trained on BolaWrap 150, support recurring digital training through Wrap Tactics, increase adoption of devices and recurring cassettes, and provide a framework the company can seek to replicate across additional states and agencies. WRAP believes California represents an important first step toward moving BolaWrap from a standalone technology to an institutionalized law enforcement capability. WRAP’s new doctrine is designed around a different question: What can an officer lawfully and tactically do when verbal de-escalation is not working, but the circumstances do not yet require a traditional weapons-based response? WRAP believes the BolaWrap 150 creates an opportunity to answer that question. Following ATF Ruling 2026-2, BolaWrap 150 is classified under federal law as an instrument of restraint, not a firearm and not an 'any other weapon.' That classification creates the foundation for WRAP’s newly developed doctrine: a methodology intended to give officers a physical means of operationalizing de-escalation through restraint at distance before an encounter progresses to conventional weapons-based force. The methodology integrates communication, recognition of resistance, time, distance, positioning and remote restraint into a unified tactical framework. Instead of treating de-escalation solely as something an officer attempts to persuade another person to do, the doctrine seeks to give officers a lawful physical capability that can help create the conditions for de-escalation. The methodology does not eliminate or restrict higher-force options. If circumstances deteriorate and legally justified force becomes necessary, officers retain those capabilities. Rather, the doctrine is intended to provide an additional tactical option earlier in the encounter, before circumstances take those options away. WRAP describes this approach as the Lowest Reasonable Response: identifying and applying an effective response appropriate to the resistance and circumstances presented, while continuously reassessing the encounter. Depending on the circumstances, that may include a non-lethal response or a transition to other lawful tools and higher-force options as the situation requires. WRAP has submitted the newly developed curriculum for independent validation in preparation for applying for California POST certification. If certified, the curriculum is intended to provide California law enforcement agencies with a standardized training methodology for incorporating the BolaWrap 150 and operational de-escalation into patrol operations, crisis response and agency training. WRAP also plans to make the curriculum digitally available through Wrap Tactics, its learning management system, creating a pathway to distribute standardized instruction at scale. WRAP intends to use the California POST process as an initial model for pursuing additional state training certifications and agency adoption nationally, creating a repeatable framework combining doctrine, certification, technology and digital delivery. The objective is to move operational de-escalation from a concept into a standardized methodology that can be trained, practiced and incorporated into everyday law enforcement operations. WRAP believes the potential implications are particularly significant for Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT), patrol officers responding to behavioral and mental health emergencies, and other encounters where a person in crisis is unable or unwilling to respond to verbal de-escalation alone. WRAP’s doctrine recognizes this limitation: traditional de-escalation relies heavily on communication, but ultimately the subject controls whether verbal de-escalation succeeds. Officers therefore need an operational capability capable of creating time, distance, restraint and tactical advantage without immediately moving to a conventional higher-force tool. WRAP believes the ATF classification of BolaWrap 150 creates the potential for a new approach.

Wrap Technologies, Inc. Stock Price

WRAP Share Price Performance

WRAP Community Narratives

Trending Discussion

Recently Updated Narratives

Snowflake Analysis

Wrap Technologies, Inc. Key Details

About WRAP

Recent WRAP News & Updates

Wrap Technologies Completes New Law Enforcement Doctrine And Training Methodology For Operationalizing De-Escalation Using BolaWrap 150

New minor risk - Shareholder dilution

Wrap Technologies, Inc. has completed a Follow-on Equity Offering in the amount of $11.999973 million.

Recent updates

Wrap Technologies, Inc. Competitors

Immersion

Canaan

Turtle Beach

SmartRent