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Pleasanton Police Department <br />Military Equipment Inventory <br />Equipment Name: Safariland Wallbanger <br />Quantity Owned/Sought: 1 owned Lifespan: Unknown <br />Equipment Capabilities: The Wallbanger is a device designed to breach a variety of barriers including <br />reinforced doors. <br />Manufacturer Product Description: The WallBanger is a multi-purpose breaching tool, constructed of <br />lightweight aluminum square tubing, and used to deploy distraction devices to gain forced entrance <br />into a building, structure, or even a vehicle. The WallBanger is a carbon steel chamber that accepts a <br />Defense Technology Distraction Device steel body. The chamber has tungsten steel breaching cleats <br />on its face in various directions. It is designed to easily breach locking devices of typical residential <br />and commercial doors, window screens, hardened glass, and even automobile safety glass. <br />Purpose/Authorized Uses: The purpose of the device is to breach sturdy or reinforced doors. Its use is <br />authorized during tactical or emergency situations where mechanical breaching options are not <br />expected to be effective or safe. <br />Fiscal Impacts: The Wallbanger was purchased approximately in 2012. Purchase records are <br />unavailable. <br />Legal/Procedural Rules Governing Use: All breaching requires a lawful authority to enter. There are <br />no legal requirements specific to this device. Procedurally, use of this device would be authorized by a <br />supervisor or commander when alternative breaching methods are expected to be ineffective or <br />unsafe. <br />Training Required: Only officers who have received training on use of the device are authorized to <br />use it. Training must include a practical application exercise. <br />Other Notes: None. <br />