1A. What is the purpose behind Spike Belt’s new technologies, over other self righting type spike systems?
A. To make the Spike-Belt easier to handle, effective and safer for your officers.
B. None, The Spike Belt is a normal
C. Spike belt has a strap to hold it together,.
D. Spike belt has a storage option for the winder.
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1B. Don Kilgrow (retired Utah Highway Patrol) has been credited as being the Co-inventor of the modern day Spike System.
A. True, Kilgrow brought to market, the first popular accordion type Spike system.
B. False
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1C. Kilgrows spike system had stopped how many pursuits by 1997?
A. It was announced that his system had stopped 15K pursuits with a perfect safety record.
B. Kilgrows system has only stopped a few Pursuits in the Texas and Utah area.
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1D. Trooper Ken Grieves (Retired Indiana State Police) patented a new Tire Deflation Device, which was multisided, what was its main feature?
A. easy to deploy.
B. System was rebuilt not serviced.
C. The system had to thrown away and a replacement bought.
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1E. Did Spike Strips have a perfect track record?
A. No, With the new design came new tactics, where the devices were deployed without a cord. Very soon the safety of tire deflation devices were questioned and changes were necessary after serious incidents.
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1F. Spike-Belt is a new product design after 30 years based on what basic improvements
A. Spike Belt is a fusion of Trooper Kilgrows, rock and tilt design, Kilgrows, system concept adapted to a simpler Multi-sided product..
B. Spike Belt has created a fusion of the best features, to address safety concerns and also produce an easy to deploy product.
C. Spike Belt doesn not offer any improvements, just lower price.
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1G. Does Spike Devil provide assistance in research, planning and Training?
A. Yes, we provide a web sites for training and on all of them have sections labeled “Research and Planning” we give the history of how Spike-Strips became very popular to later develop a questionable reputation and how we design help you train around problem areas.
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1H. The selection of Spikes can be confusing, does Spike Devil provide support to help understand spikes and help make a better educated choice and Spike experiance?
A. Yes, we explain the differance and features of products, the system concept, with our durable winders, and deployment sleeve, that help make it a safer product to use. We also describe the questioned tactics, which Instructors should be very careful to look for and train around.
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1I. Does Spike Devil provide a training program for customers?
A. Training for our Spike Belt, can be found on www.spikebelt.net, with the tab labeled “Training overview” It has a classroom portion with two hands on options for training. Training is supported with two manuals, and our YouTube channel.
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