Editing Plastic handcuffs (section)

==Advantages==
The low cost and light weight of plastic handcuffs has made them popular with [[police]]men and [[military]] forces when they anticipate a large number of [[arrest]]s, as in [[riot control]] or [[Demonstration (people)|demonstrations]]. An advantage of disposable restraints is avoidance of [[Transmission (medicine)|transmission]] of [[communicable disease]]; metal handcuffs can spread disease through reuse (from [[blood]] or other [[bodily fluid]]s that may not have been cleaned off the cuffs), but disposable restraints do not need to be used on multiple subjects.<ref name="Hunsicker2011">{{cite book|author=A. Hunsicker|title=Behind the Shield: Anti-Riot Operations Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3k2YhTidh0C&pg=PA136|year=2011|publisher=Universal-Publishers|isbn=978-1-61233-035-8|pages=136–}}</ref>