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BolaWrap Demonstrated to Five of the Six States in Australia; Receives National Coverage
TEMPE, Arizona, Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Wrap Technologies, Inc. (the "Company" or "Wrap") (Nasdaq: WRTC), an innovator of modern policing solutions,
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[{"type":"text","content":" TEMPE, Arizona, Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Wrap Technologies, Inc. (the \"Company\" or \"Wrap\") (Nasdaq: WRTC), an innovator of modern policing solutions, today reported successful demonstrations of the BolaWrap 100 to five of six states in Australia this past week, including New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, and Tasmania. \n\n \nTom Smith, President of Wrap Technologies, travelled across Australia alongside George Hateley, founder and Managing Director of BREON Defence Systems - the Company's exclusive BolaWrap distributor in Australia, New Zealand and three other countries in the area - demonstrating the BolaWrap to Australian police departments.\n\"Australia is a forward thinking country focused on utilizing less-lethal tools as a means to restrain noncompliant, noncombative subjects,\" said Smith. \"Over the past year, we have received more than 15 requests from Australian police departments and distributors for BolaWrap demonstrations and training, and we are glad that with our newly updated device and my long history with Breon, we are now prepared to service them.\"\nIn a follow up statement about the BolaWrap demonstrations, Mr. Hateley said the following:\n\"It was a great pleasure to once again travel our large country visiting five out of the six state police agencies with a law enforcement population of approximately 75,000 sworn officers and the potential for other law enforcement subsidiaries.\nThis 'Information & Demonstration' tour reminded me of our similar journey of 20 years ago. Our credibility as an efficient and reliable supplier of law enforcement technology opens many of the same doors.\nOur reception exceeded my expectations, with positive feedback coming from normally conservative and skeptical law enforcement personnel. The exciting part was the follow up inquiries from the departments - prior to returning to my office, I received several calls with invitations for further combined agency national conference demonstrations to their respective hierarchy in both the police and prison areas.\nInitial proactive inquiries about putting trial units numbers together for respective agencies were encouraging, with further comments saying, 'We have to follow trial protocol prior to field purchase,' and further comments about the number of devices needed to supply operational offi...