Product: StoppaRed UV Mk3 Cannister

What is StoppaRedUV?

 

StoppaRed UV is a thick slimy goo designed to physically stick to an attacker giving you valuable time to react and escape to an incident.

The 'goo' has a bright red colour to identify the attacker in the moments after an incident with added UV dye to help identify the attacker even days later.
It is designed to be difficult to remove without running water.
This spray can provide you with a chance to escape and physical evidence to place suspects at the scene of a crime / incident and could help CCTV operators to track a suspects movements. It is no longer your word against theirs, StoppaRed UV places the offender at the scene.

Easy one handed operation with integral safety features makes StoppaRed UV the fastest to deploy spray in the UK.

Produces a very accurate stream over 3 metres for approx 6 seconds or 6 one second bursts. StoppaRed UV has a maximum range of 4.5 metres.

Ideal for staff safety, lone travellers, shop workers, health care professionals, security guards, CSO's Neighbourhood Wardens etc. If you use StoppaRed UV to defend yourself or some one else and obtain a Police report we will give you a free replacement spray.

 

Our Test
Subject 1
Subject 1 was male, wearing a standard white cotton t-shirt and recieved a 2 second burst covering a section around the end of the t-shirt sleeve and arm and was allowed to 'wash' after 2 hours.

 

Subject 2
Subject 2 was female, wearing a standard white cotton t-shirt and received a 2 second burst to the base of the neck, covering the neck of the t-shirt and hair and was allowed to 'wash' immediately.

Both subjects found the 'goo' impossible to remove without water and in fact, attempting to remove the 'goog' without water just spread it on to a larger area as well as the hands and forearms. Subject 2, in her attempt to remove it from her hair by 'combing' it with her fingers anded up with splodges of goo all down her back, making her even more identifiable.

2 machine washes were required to remove the 'red' staining of the product from the t-shirt of subject 2 and 3 machine washes from the clothing of subject 1.
We did find traces of UV dye still present on some fibres after the machine washes. So we can conclude that the longer clothing is in contact with the product, the more difficult it is to remove but does no lasting damage. Clothing that appears to have no red staining to the naked eye may still carry the UV indicator.

Both subjects had a hard time removing the product from skin which required quite a lot of washing with soap - we could not remove all of the product by using water alone.

 

Claimed Features:
Thick sticky goo - think of thick wallpaper paste!
Formula sticks like glue - it certainly did!
Difficult to remove without water - it certainly was and we found we could only remove all traces with the aid of soap
Invisible UV Dye to ID attackers - yes
Long range - yes
Easy to Use - yes and the pressure required to discharge was within the physical strength our our female user
Integral safety features - a simple but very strong safety mechanism prevents accidental discharge even when dropped on its 'head' from 3 metres
Pocker sized canister - measuring only 10cm x 3.5cm you can conceal it very easily in the palm of your hand
Nylon Belt pouch available - available but we did not test this
Non-toxic, Non flammable - we failed to ignite both the product and the propellant gas
One handed operation - yes
Five year shelf life - our test product came with the expiry date marked on the base of the product (2010) and we found that the shelf life was 2 years longer than similar products.

 

Comments
Both our female test subject and female user expressed comments that the product was easy to use and that they would be ordering the product for themselves.

Although this product is ideal for security personnel it is our considered opinion that this product would be invaluable for women to use as an anti-attack, anti-rape product that the majority of rape alarms we have seen.

It does exactly what it says on the tin and we were unable to fault it. We consider this product to be an invaluable aid to todays security personnel and further more - every woman should carry one as a personal protection aid.

The Guild of Security UK Ltd therefore has great pleasure in awarding the StoppaRed UV Mk3 Canister with our covetted 'Approved Product' status.

Added: October 15th 2005
Reviewer: John Haywood