Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Baton (law enforcement)

Index Baton (law enforcement)

A baton or truncheon is a roughly cylindrical club made of wood, rubber, plastic or metal. [1]

100 relations: Armlock, ASP, Inc., Ballantine Books, Baltimore Police Department, Baseball bat, Bean bag round, Biceps, Boatswain, Bone fracture, Brittleness, Club (weapon), Concussion, Criminal Code (Canada), Crowbar (tool), D battery, Density, Denver Police Department, Detroit, Dictionary.com, Edo period, Eggshell skull, Egypt, Espantoon, Flashlight, Generic trademark, Groin, Heraldry, Infighting (martial arts), Jitte, Kel-Lite, Knobkierie, Kubotan, Lathe, Law enforcement in the United Kingdom, Lead, London, Long Beach Police Department (California), Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Mace (bludgeon), Maglite, Malice Green, Master-at-arms, Mate (naval officer), Military police, Monadnock Lifetime Products, Muscle, Neurapraxia, New York City, New York City Police Department, New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police, ..., Non-lethal weapon, Okinawan kobudō, Pepper spray, Peroneal strike, Philadelphia Police Department, Pickaxe, Pistol-whipping, Police, Police brutality, Prevention of Crime Act 1953, Pump action, Quadriceps femoris muscle, Republic of Ireland, Revolver, Riot, Riot control, Riverside, California, Rodney King, Romani language, Sacramento Police Department, San Francisco Police Department, Santa Ana, California, Sceptre, Self-defense, Shillelagh (club), Siberia, Sidearm, Sjambok, Skull, Skull fracture, Slungshot, Splint (medicine), Staff of office, Sternum, Stick-fighting, Taser, Telescoping (mechanics), The New Zealand Herald, Tonfa, Traffic, Traumatic brain injury, Tree, Use of force, Vertebral column, Victorian era, W. W. Norton & Company, Warrant card, Weapon, Weighted-knuckle glove, 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States. Expand index (50 more) »

Armlock

An armlock in grappling is a single or double joint lock that hyperextends, hyperflexes or hyperrotates the elbow joint or shoulder joint.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Armlock · See more »

ASP, Inc.

Armament Systems and Procedures, Inc. (ASP, Inc.), is a US defensive compliance weapons manufacturer providing equipment to law enforcement and private security companies.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and ASP, Inc. · See more »

Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Ballantine Books · See more »

Baltimore Police Department

The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) provides police services to the city of Baltimore, Maryland.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Baltimore Police Department · See more »

Baseball bat

A baseball bat is a smooth wooden or metal club used in the sport of baseball to hit the ball after it is thrown by the pitcher.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Baseball bat · See more »

Bean bag round

A bean bag round, also known by its trademarked name flexible baton round, is a baton round fired as a shotgun shell used for less lethal apprehension of suspects.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Bean bag round · See more »

Biceps

The biceps, also biceps brachii is a two-headed muscle that lies on the upper arm between the shoulder and the elbow.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Biceps · See more »

Boatswain

A boatswain (formerly and dialectally also), bo's'n, bos'n, or bosun, also known as a Petty Officer or a qualified member of the deck department, is the seniormost rate of the deck department and is responsible for the components of a ship's hull.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Boatswain · See more »

Bone fracture

A bone fracture (sometimes abbreviated FRX or Fx, Fx, or #) is a medical condition in which there is a partial or complete break in the continuity of the bone.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Bone fracture · See more »

Brittleness

# A material is brittle if, when subjected to stress, it breaks without significant plastic deformation.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Brittleness · See more »

Club (weapon)

A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, beating stick, or bludgeon) is among the simplest of all weapons: a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon since prehistoric times.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Club (weapon) · See more »

Concussion

Concussion, also known as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is typically defined as a head injury that temporarily affects brain functioning.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Concussion · See more »

Criminal Code (Canada)

The Criminal Code (Code criminelThe citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by the French text of of this Act.) is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Criminal Code (Canada) · See more »

Crowbar (tool)

A crowbar, also called a wrecking bar, pry bar or prybar, pinch-bar, or occasionally a prise bar or prisebar, colloquially, in Britain and Australia sometimes called a jimmy (also called jimmy bar or jemmy), gooseneck, or pig foot, is a tool consisting of a metal bar with a single curved end and flattened points, often with a small fissure on one or both ends for removing nails.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Crowbar (tool) · See more »

D battery

A D battery (D cell or IEC R20) is a size of dry cell.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and D battery · See more »

Density

The density, or more precisely, the volumetric mass density, of a substance is its mass per unit volume.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Density · See more »

Denver Police Department

The Denver Police Department (DPD) is the full service police department jointly for the City and County of Denver, Colorado, which provides the full spectrum of police services to the entire county, including Denver International Airport, and may provide contractual security police service to special districts within the county.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Denver Police Department · See more »

Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Detroit · See more »

Dictionary.com

Dictionary.com is an online dictionary whose domain was first registered on May 14, 1995.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Dictionary.com · See more »

Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Edo period · See more »

Eggshell skull

The eggshell rule (or thin skull rule) is a well-established legal doctrine in common law, used in some tort law systems, with a similar doctrine applicable to criminal law.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Eggshell skull · See more »

Egypt

Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Egypt · See more »

Espantoon

The espantoon is an ornate straight wooden baton, equipped with a long swiveled leather strap for twirling.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Espantoon · See more »

Flashlight

A flashlight (more often called a torch outside North America) is a portable hand-held electric light.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Flashlight · See more »

Generic trademark

A generic trademark, also known as a genericized trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that, due to its popularity or significance, has become the generic name for, or synonymous with, a general class of product or service, usually against the intentions of the trademark's holder.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Generic trademark · See more »

Groin

In human anatomy, the groin (the adjective is inguinal, as in inguinal canal) is the junctional area (also known as the inguinal region) between the abdomen and the thigh on either side of the pubic bone.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Groin · See more »

Heraldry

Heraldry is a broad term, encompassing the design, display, and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank, and pedigree.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Heraldry · See more »

Infighting (martial arts)

Infighting is the name given to certain martial art techniques used while in close proximity to the opponent.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Infighting (martial arts) · See more »

Jitte

A is a specialized weapon that was used by police in Edo period Japan.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Jitte · See more »

Kel-Lite

Kel-Lite was the first heavy-duty aluminum bodied flashlight, which became popular with law enforcement agencies due to its heavy construction.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Kel-Lite · See more »

Knobkierie

A Knobkierie, also spelled knobkerrie, knopkierie (Afrikaans) or knobkerry, is a form of club used mainly in Southern and Eastern Africa.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Knobkierie · See more »

Kubotan

Kubotan (sometimes erroneously spelled as kubaton or kobutan) is a genericized trademark for a self-defense keychain weapon developed by Sōke Takayuki Kubota in the late 1960s.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Kubotan · See more »

Lathe

A lathe is a tool that rotates the workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Lathe · See more »

Law enforcement in the United Kingdom

Law enforcement in the United Kingdom is organised separately in each of the legal systems of the United Kingdom: England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Law enforcement in the United Kingdom · See more »

Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Lead · See more »

London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and London · See more »

Long Beach Police Department (California)

The Long Beach Police Department provides law enforcement for the city of Long Beach, California.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Long Beach Police Department (California) · See more »

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

With 17,694 employees, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, officially the County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, is the nation's largest Sheriff's Department.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department · See more »

Mace (bludgeon)

A mace is a blunt weapon, a type of club or virge that uses a heavy head on the end of a handle to deliver powerful blows.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Mace (bludgeon) · See more »

Maglite

Maglite (also spelled Mag-Lite) is a brand of flashlight manufactured in the United States by Mag Instrument, Inc.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Maglite · See more »

Malice Green

Malice Green (April 29, 1957 – November 5, 1992) was a resident of Detroit, Michigan who died after being assaulted by Detroit police officers Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers on November 5, 1992.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Malice Green · See more »

Master-at-arms

A Master-at-Arms (US: MA; UK & some Commonwealth: MAA) may be a naval rating, responsible for law enforcement, regulating duties, security, Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP).

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Master-at-arms · See more »

Mate (naval officer)

A mate is a deck naval officer aboard a merchant vessel, such as the chief mate (first mate), second mate, or third mate.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Mate (naval officer) · See more »

Military police

Military police (MP) are law enforcement agencies connected with, or part of, the military of a state.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Military police · See more »

Monadnock Lifetime Products

Monadnock Lifetime Products, Inc. is a weapons manufacturer providing equipment to law enforcement and private security companies since 1958.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Monadnock Lifetime Products · See more »

Muscle

Muscle is a soft tissue found in most animals.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Muscle · See more »

Neurapraxia

Neurapraxia is a disorder of the peripheral nervous system in which there is a temporary loss of motor and sensory function due to blockage of nerve conduction, usually lasting an average of six to eight weeks before full recovery.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Neurapraxia · See more »

New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and New York City · See more »

New York City Police Department

The City of New York Police Department, commonly known as the NYPD, is the primary law enforcement and investigation agency within the five boroughs of New York City.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and New York City Police Department · See more »

New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police

The New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police is a volunteer reserve police force which is a subdivision of the Patrol Services Bureau of the New York City Police Department.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and New York City Police Department Auxiliary Police · See more »

Non-lethal weapon

Non-lethal weapons, also called less-lethal weapons, less-than-lethal weapons, non-deadly weapons, compliance weapons, or pain-inducing weapons are weapons intended to be less likely to kill a living target than conventional weapons such as knives and firearms.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Non-lethal weapon · See more »

Okinawan kobudō

, literally "old martial way of Okinawa", is the weapon systems of Okinawan martial arts.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Okinawan kobudō · See more »

Pepper spray

Pepper spray (also known as capsicum spray) is a lachrymatory agent (a chemical compound that irritates the eyes to cause tears, pain, and temporary blindness) used in policing, riot control, crowd control, and self-defense, including defense against dogs and bears.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Pepper spray · See more »

Peroneal strike

A peroneal strike is a temporarily disabling blow to the common peroneal nerve of the leg, just above the knee.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Peroneal strike · See more »

Philadelphia Police Department

The Philadelphia Police Department (PPD or Philly PD) is the police agency responsible for law enforcement and investigations within the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Philadelphia Police Department · See more »

Pickaxe

A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a hand tool with a hard head attached perpendicular to the handle.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Pickaxe · See more »

Pistol-whipping

Pistol-whipping or buffaloing is the act of using a handgun as a blunt weapon, wielding it as if it were a club or baton.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Pistol-whipping · See more »

Police

A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by a state to enforce the law, to protect people and property, and to prevent crime and civil disorder.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Police · See more »

Police brutality

Police brutality is one of several forms of police misconduct which involves undue violence by police members.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Police brutality · See more »

Prevention of Crime Act 1953

The Prevention of Crime Act 1953 (C.14) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that restricts the carrying of offensive weapons in public.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Prevention of Crime Act 1953 · See more »

Pump action

A pump-action or slide-action firearm is one in which a forend can be moved forward and backward in order to eject a spent round of ammunition and to chamber a fresh one.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Pump action · See more »

Quadriceps femoris muscle

The quadriceps femoris (also called the quadriceps extensor, quadriceps or quads), is a large muscle group that includes the four prevailing muscles on the front of the thigh.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Quadriceps femoris muscle · See more »

Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Republic of Ireland · See more »

Revolver

A revolver (also called a wheel gun) is a repeating handgun that has a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers and at least one barrel for firing.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Revolver · See more »

Riot

A riot is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property or people.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Riot · See more »

Riot control

Riot control refers to the measures used by police, military, or other security forces to control, disperse, and arrest people who are involved in a riot, demonstration, or protest.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Riot control · See more »

Riverside, California

Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, located in the Inland Empire metropolitan area.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Riverside, California · See more »

Rodney King

Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African-American taxi driver who became known internationally as the victim of Los Angeles Police Department brutality, after a videotape was released of several police officers beating him during his arrest on March 3, 1991.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Rodney King · See more »

Romani language

Romani (also Romany; romani čhib) is any of several languages of the Romani people belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Romani language · See more »

Sacramento Police Department

The Sacramento Police Department (SPD) is the police department for the city of Sacramento, California.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Sacramento Police Department · See more »

San Francisco Police Department

The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is the city police department of the City and County of San Francisco, California.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and San Francisco Police Department · See more »

Santa Ana, California

Santa Ana (Spanish for "Saint Anne") is the county seat and second most populous city in Orange County, California.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Santa Ana, California · See more »

Sceptre

A sceptre (British English) or scepter (American English; see spelling differences) is a symbolic ornamental staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Sceptre · See more »

Self-defense

Self-defence (self-defense in some varieties of English) is a countermeasure that involves defending the health and well-being of oneself from harm.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Self-defense · See more »

Shillelagh (club)

A shillelagh (or; sail éille, "thonged willow") or blackthorn stick is a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty stick with a large knob at the top.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Shillelagh (club) · See more »

Siberia

Siberia (a) is an extensive geographical region, and by the broadest definition is also known as North Asia.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Siberia · See more »

Sidearm

In baseball, sidearm is a motion for throwing a ball along a low, approximately horizontal axis rather than a high, mostly vertical axis (overhand).

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Sidearm · See more »

Sjambok

The sjambok or litupa is a heavy leather whip.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Sjambok · See more »

Skull

The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Skull · See more »

Skull fracture

A skull fracture is a break in one or more of the eight bones that form the cranial portion of the skull, usually occurring as a result of blunt force trauma.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Skull fracture · See more »

Slungshot

A slungshot is a maritime tool consisting of a weight, or "shot," affixed to the end of a long cord often by being wound into the center of a knot called a "monkey's fist." It is used to cast line from one location to another, often mooring line.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Slungshot · See more »

Splint (medicine)

A splint is a device used for support or immobilization of a limb or the spine.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Splint (medicine) · See more »

Staff of office

A staff of office is a staff, the carrying of which often denotes an official's position, a social rank or a degree of social prestige.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Staff of office · See more »

Sternum

The sternum or breastbone is a long flat bone located in the center of the chest.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Sternum · See more »

Stick-fighting

Stick-fighting, stickfighting, or stick fighting is a variety of martial arts which use simple long slender, blunt, hand-held, generally wooden 'sticks' for fighting; such as a staff, cane, walking stick, baton or similar.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Stick-fighting · See more »

Taser

A Taser is a brand of electroshock weapon sold by Axon.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Taser · See more »

Telescoping (mechanics)

Telescoping in mechanics describes the movement of one part sliding out from another, lengthening an object (such as a telescope or the lift arm of an aerial work platform) from its rest state.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Telescoping (mechanics) · See more »

The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and The New Zealand Herald · See more »

Tonfa

The tonfa (Okinawan: トンファー tonfā, Malay: topang) also known as tong fa, tonqua or tuifa, is a melee weapon best known for its role in the armed component of Okinawan martial arts.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Tonfa · See more »

Traffic

Traffic on roads consists of road users including pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, buses and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using the public way for purposes of travel.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Traffic · See more »

Traumatic brain injury

Traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as intracranial injury, occurs when an external force injures the brain.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Traumatic brain injury · See more »

Tree

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Tree · See more »

Use of force

The use of force, in the context of law enforcement, may be defined as the "amount of effort required by police to compel compliance by an unwilling subject".

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Use of force · See more »

Vertebral column

The vertebral column, also known as the backbone or spine, is part of the axial skeleton.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Vertebral column · See more »

Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Victorian era · See more »

W. W. Norton & Company

W.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and W. W. Norton & Company · See more »

Warrant card

A warrant card is proof of identification and authority carried by police officers and some other law enforcement officers including immigration officers.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Warrant card · See more »

Weapon

A weapon, arm or armament is any device used with intent to inflict damage or harm.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Weapon · See more »

Weighted-knuckle glove

Weighted-knuckle gloves, also called sap gloves, are a type of weapon used in hand to hand combat.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and Weighted-knuckle glove · See more »

1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States

The 1981 South African rugby tour (known in New Zealand as the Springbok Tour, and in South Africa as the Rebel Tour) polarised opinions and inspired widespread protests across New Zealand.

New!!: Baton (law enforcement) and 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States · See more »

Redirects here:

Baton (weapon), Billie club, Billy Club, Billy club, Billy clubs, Billy stick, Billy sticks, Billy-club, Billystick, Billysticks, Blackjack (weapon), Club (law enforcement), Collapsible baton, Expandable baton, PR-24, Paddy wacker, Police Baton, Police baton, Police club, Riot baton, Riot batons, Sap (weapon), Slapjack (weapon), Stanky Doodle, T-baton, Telescopic baton, Telescopic truncheon.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_(law_enforcement)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »