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Description:
    Trooper Trap is a prisoner seatbelt alarm device designed for maximum officer and public
    safety needs.  Trooper Trap does not restrict or restrain the prisoner, but it monitors the
    prisoner simply alerting the officer as soon as the prisoner removes the seatbelt.  If a
    prisoner releases the seatbelt, the police car or transport units horn will immediately
    sound.  This alerts the officer that the prisoner is no longer secured.

    This early warning startles the prisoner and usually stops the escape attempt at that
    point.  The most important thing the warning does is alert the officer.  Before a prisoner
   can escapes, steal or damage a police car or transport unit; they have to remove the
   seatbelt.  Trooper Trap is setting a new prisoner transport standard by decreasing
   department's liability and providing additional officer and public safety.

The Story:
    Trooper Trap was invented after a prisoner slipped out of handcuffs, released the seatbelt
    and stole a new highway patrol car.  After short high speed chase the prisoner crashed
    the patrol car and fled on foot, only to be caught again.  After this event, research
    indicated a large number of similar incidences just like this over the past number of
    years.  Still today prisoner escapes, stolen and damaged police cars happen everyday.
    Trooper Trap is a patented way to stop these events.

Trooper Trap parts: 
 a 3 lighted switch control box,
 
3 pre-wired sensors, and
 
3 magnetic terminals.  

Cost:  $195.00  plus shipping

Trooper Trap simply installs in about 45 minutes.  Instructions included, with tips online.

Though police officers have a duty to apprehend people who break the law
"a police officer's paramount duty is to protect the public".
South Carolina Supreme Court    01-22-2005

Prisoner Transport Issue #1

Secured in the back seat of a caged unit.
This thinking is what gets officers killed.

  Over 95% of the media reported 2007 escapes
  have been from the back seat of caged units.
  Sliding screens, partitions, cages, even window bars
  can not hold all prisoners.  Plus it is against policies
  to handcuff or affix subjects to fixed objects, even if
  the fixed object is the patrol car.
   
  Sept. 2006 - Houston PD, TX - an officer sitting in the front seat after arresting a man.
  The man was able to get a concealed gun and shot the officer through the cage 4 times.

  June 2007 - Clay City PD, Ky - the Chief arrested and was transporting a man to jail
  who was able to get to a gun and shot the chief through the cage.
 

Prisoner Transport Issue #2

Cost of escapes and public perception.

  Prisoners not only escape, steal or damage police
  cars, but they kill budgets and public perception too.

  If a prisoner escapes, case law holds the department
  responsible for the prisoner during the escape. 

  Departments are also responsible to pay back other
  departments the cost of man hunts and this happens.

  Nevada - Las Vegas Metro Police - Aug. 4th, 2006
  Lopez family sues Las Vegas Metro Police for $23.75 million.  News Link

  Ohio - Ohio State Patrol - Aug. 22nd, 2007
  State to pay $350,000 to family of woman who escaped patrol car.  News Link

Prisoner Transport Issue #3   

  Watching your prisoner after arrest.

  The real facts are an officer can not effectively see
  inside the patrol car at night to see if the prisoner
  is still there.  With all the flashing lights and the
  spot light, it is next to impossible to visually
  observe the prisoner at all times. 
 

Prisoner Transport Issue #4

Prisoner transport escapes are not new.

 The prevention of prisoner escapes, stolen
 or damaged police and transport cars is.

  Trooper Trap has established a new standard
  for prisoner transport.  Now there is a way to
  monitor with prisoner while the officer has to
  be away from the police car or transport unit.

Officer and public safety has to be top priority.

Prisoner Transport Issue #5

   Turn unit off and leave prisoner in cage.
   No - heat builds up inside vehicles.

   If it is against the law to leave a pet or child in the
   vehicle, how can you leave a prisoner in a vehicle?     

 - 73 degrees outside, vehicles heat up to 100 degrees
   in 10 minutes and 120 degrees in 30 minutes.

 -  90 degrees outside, the vehicle can heat up to 160 degrees within just a few minutes.

 -  93 degrees with a window down 1 inch, temperature inside car could reach 125 degrees
    in 20 minutes and about 140 degrees in 40 minutes.

    Heat exhaustion can occur above 90 degrees and heat stroke can occur above 105.

Heat information: Click Here or More Info.

Prisoner Transport Issue #5

   Call a back-up unit to watch your prisoner.

   Some departments might have multiple officers on a
   scene, but most do not.  Many officers work out of
   single person units without back-up or back-up is
   several minutes away. 

   Even if another officer shows up, they rarely watch the prisoner, but they usually are helping inventory the vehicle, dealing with family or by standers, or directing traffic.  Trooper Trap never takes a day off and never calls in sick.