Oy!
Matt Easton of Schola Gladiatoria, whose great-grandfather was Glasgow’s chief of police, goes in-depth with a classic Victorian police truncheon, which is more interesting than you would expect.
As someone who has a half-dozen different “impact tool” trainer certs and has taught the use of such behavior modification devices to LE, military and security forces for two decades (and have the old PR-24 to prove it!), I found the take curious but not too far off-base considering the time the baton dated from. Even with today’s tasers and stun guns, I maintain that a properly used airweight 21-inch ASP can work wonders in many circumstances.