In
a situation where someone is shooting at an officer and takes cover behind
an interior partition wall (or residential type door), the officer may
return fire through the wall or door with Polyshok I.R.P. ammunition.
If the I.R.P. round does not hit a stud or other
solid interior wall structure, it can provide up to a two foot zone, just
on the other side of this type of wall, that can produce incapacitating or
potentially fatal wounds.
Medically supervised tests indicated the resulting
wounds resembled blunt impact type wounds, more than conventional gunshot
wounds, with substantial tissue and bone trauma. The medical team deemed
them comparable to a heavy impact from a baseball bat or even a
sledgehammer, and considered them incapacitating with a high potential of
lethality.
A safe non-lethal range from the exit point through
this type of wall would be approximately ten feet with the possibility of
moderate abrasive type flesh wounds. At this distance two layers of 11 oz.
denim or tactical type clothing will dissipate the discharge to the point
of a low probability of even minor flesh wounds.