When pulled from traffic, Multi-sided systems, do not neatly fold up, in fact they often stay on the roadway, leave debris on the road and occasionally come apart and scatter the sections on the roadway. This is illustrated below, as Multi-sided systems have had a history of deployment officers being struck by pursuit officers, as officers enter the roadway to recover the system. In the tabs labeled Singular Deployment and Cord Reel failure, we discuss the safety issues in greater detail, with training solutions.

Multi-Sided systems need a sleeve for safety. The sleeve holds the 3 foot Spike Strip sections, Spike parts, or points, in the sleeve. Some designs, use NO SLEEVE, these should be avoided. Sometimes, these systems are deployed in a fashion called Singular deployment.

In the picture above, you see the many points of a Multi-sided system, this is inside a enclosure that has sharp edges that can also catch the curb, and snag on cracks on the road surface. Notice in the picture, the deployment «officer» is standing upright, and the cord and cord reel is elevated, where it can snag a cars bumper. This problem results, in a system being dragged down the road, and scattering debris, and a nightmare for officers trying to clear the road of spikes.

Spike Belts design is superior, our curved edges are designed to float over a curb, and not stay on the road. Our system is made of tough ballistic nylon, designed not to come apart in traffic and dump the Strips. We use a 360 handle designed to grab from any side, so your officer wastes no time in deployment nor retrieval. Our winder system is much simpler, and can be deployed much further with less effort. Spike Devil has taken the measures to make Spike Belt much simpler than other multi-sided systems and as safe as accordion type systems.