Getting out of handcuffs?

[FrostedWoods]

This is such a bizarre thing to write about but hear me out!

Had a weird situation with the police last night. Won't fully go into it but they mistakenly thought there was a criminal in my house and I was arrested then unarrested when they realised their mistake. I was put into handcuffs. I have hypermobility. And I think due to this I could get out of the cuffs pretty easily. Has anyone else experienced this?

I was so suprised at how easy they are to get out of. Do they have any kind of back up if they really need to keep someone secure? Just keep thinking about it! 😄

If they were looking for a criminal did you look like them?! Otherwise this is so weird!

what on earth about the loft ladder? 🤣 you must have been expecting a camera crew to appear!

Read the thread.

Escaping lawful detention.

If they wanted to go harder, they would've put the cable tie types on and hands behind your back.

But the whole thing is very odd.

You not remembering what you were apparently arrested for and them shouting into a loft for a man they were looking for, like they're going to follow it up with "Coming, ready or not".

Then there's the fact you appear to find it hilarious, despite your two children witnessing it.

The woman did eventually search the loft but she had to send for back up because she was too scared to climb the loft ladder without someone holding it. I only found this out after they'd gone and my kids told me what was happening upstairs. But apparently she was shouting 'I know you're in there...' when she clearly had no idea - we just keep laughing about it all now...but at the time it was stressful!

Do you mean escaping lawful custody. There is no such law as escaping lawful detention. Getting out of handcuffs doesn’t actually come out of this, it’s only is OP was to run off after she has been told that she has been arrested/detained (for the purpose of a search etc.)

😂 Not as pretty, no!

They didn't know I was hypermobile...I mean perhaps they realised after a while - I don't know. I'm not really small but smaller than a man. I can imagine they could cause a lot of injury. My wrists and hands are very bruised. I honestly don't know why the handcuffing was necessary. Especially once they realised I could get out of them. It seemed to be about keeping me away from my kids? Not sure, very odd.

Cable ties!? 😂 the police do not routinely carry cable ties to handcuff people. I’m assuming the OP is in the UK!

Honestly looking at the grounds on which they could enter my home I don't think there were any grounds.

It has also crossed my mind that the whole arresting and handcuffing was just the officer having a tantrum because I told her no. They were very young and very arrogant.

Yes, I know.

Oh do read my posts properly.

I said the cable tie TYPE.

The restraints that are regularly used on wrists and feet when someone tries to escape or poses a threat.

But what were their grounds for thinking I was harbouring a criminal? Also are they allowed to lie about their reason for entering your house?

I don't know the correct terminology but she said she was arresting me and then 'unarresting' me. Didn't know you could be 'unarrested' but you clearly can!

I have hyper mobility and can pull my thumb and pinky fingers across my palm in a way that makes my hand narrower than my wrist.

This means I too, can slip out of handcuffs!

(for clarification I have never been arrested!)

No they bloody didn't! 😂 This officer was an absolute menace - leaving my back door open, left the loft ladder down despite knowing there were 2 autistic children not being looked after. Apparently she is 'good with kids'. I could hear her yanking on my loft ladder rather than properly opening it...had to explain to her how it worked...literally no common sense.

I didn't mean you specifically but if they suspect someone is.

But I was just about to ask you the same thing.

Why did they think that there was a criminal in your house?

Strangest thing that has ever happened to me!

Well, I got arrested without being handcuffed. I was also allowed to make a call to a fellow school mum to arrange a lift to school for my DD2 (then seven) while in the back of the police car being taken to the police station to be charged. I realise now that this is/was a huge breach of protocol. I found the police to be exceptionally kind and understanding.

They did do that but I was in flight or fight at this point so my frontal cortex had shut off.

But they had the wrong place so I don't think they had any grounds for entering my property.

If you want to sue, then start by contacting the blackbeltbarrister, either on Youtube or X

It does seem bizarre. In my mind what is the point of putting cuffs on someone if it does nothing (except injure them) and everyone just has to pretend the cuffs are doing something?! I honestly can't get my head round it. It was the way they got really het up when I took them off but were fine as long as I kept them on even though they had no effect in detaining me.

Haha other weirdness! It's like the police just go through the motions. There was zero point of these cuffs being on me but we had to pretend different. Was really weird.

Well RTFT plenty of people including an ex copper have explained when and why people are cuffed at the front and how the tightness varies and why.

Plenty of other posters have spoken of getting out of cuffs.

The OP was most likely detained and not arrested and she wasn’t left in the building.

There are plenty of examples of police going to the wrong address and of making mistakes, including on this thread.