Distance-Based Safety Backed by Training and Results

When agencies talk about safer outcomes, they include tools that change behavior without escalating risk. PepperBall delivers exactly that. Using an organic irritant in a frangible projectile, PepperBall allows officers to create distance, shape movement, and gain compliance without resorting to lethal force. The result: more time, more control, and fewer injuries for everyone involved.

Safety begins with standoff. PepperBall projectiles enable officers to influence a subject from outside the immediate danger zone, reducing hands-on struggles where injuries to officers and subjects often occur. Precision area-denial and directed impacts help move a person away from a weapon, an exit, or a bystander, buying critical seconds for verbal commands and teamwork to work. Agencies also report cleaner after-action narratives because the intent is clear: de-escalate and resolve.

Training is the difference between a tool and a system. PepperBall invests heavily in instructor development, operator certification, and scenario-based drills that mirror real calls: behavioral health, barricades, vehicle extractions, and crowd dynamics. Courses cover policy alignment, decision-making under stress, target selection, and post-deployment care. The standard is simple: officers must learn the guidelines of how to create policy on when, why, and how to deploy, and when to hold. That discipline is why agencies see consistent, defensible use-of-force outcomes.

A safer tool also reduces organizational risk. Departments adopting PepperBall often note fewer workers’-comp claims tied to close-quarters fights, fewer community injuries, and clearer articulation for prosecutors, command staff, and city attorneys. Over two decades of field use and more than 20 million projectiles deployed worldwide provide a track record that chiefs and risk managers can evaluate with confidence. The combination of distance, controllability, and structured training lowers the likelihood of catastrophic outcomes that strain budgets, staffing, and public trust.

Importantly, PepperBall complements - not replaces - other tools. It fills the space between presence and lethal force, giving officers practical options to resolve unpredictable, fast-moving events. This is distance-based de-escalation in action: create space, direct movement, resolve safely.

Communities expect professionalism and restraint. Officers deserve equipment and training that make restraint possible. PepperBall brings both to the line, an integrated system designed to change behavior from a safer distance, supported by rigorous instruction, and proven where it matters most: in the field.