US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will be supplied with gloves that deliver powerful electric shocks.
The gloves are designed to cause pain and impair a person’s ability to respond within seconds.
The devices, known as the GLOVE (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter), are normal patrol gloves until an officer presses a button to activate them.
They must be in direct contact with someone’s skin to administer a voltage that causes pain, which is intended to incapacitate those who are shocked.
The rollout of the gloves, which could cost up to $20million (£14.8million), follows intense criticism against ICE for aggressive tactics used to apprehend
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