6.3. Spiked kinetic impact devices Investigation by the Omega Research Foundation has discovered the ongoing marketing of a range of spiked kinetic impact devices such as spiked batons, spiked shields and other spiked equipment including spiked assaultive arm armour intended for use by police and security forces. Although manufactured by Asian companies, these have been promoted in arms fairs across the world, including in the CoE region. Such devices clearly have no legitimate law enforcement purpose, their only practical use being to inflict torture or other ill-treatment. Consequently, the import, export or promotion of such devices is prohibited under EC Regulation 1236/2005 and EU Regulation 2016/2134. It is unknown whether any non-EU CoE member States currently control or prohibit the trade in such devices. 6.2.3. Promotion of spiked kinetic impact devices The Omega Research Foundation identified one CoE company – the Cyprus based Carriar El Limited – that, as of January 2018, promoted and offered to supply certain forms of spiked batons as well as well as a spiked “multifunction attack and defend arm shield” on their website315, as pictured below. In correspondence with Omega, the company stated that no “such products have…been sold to any law enforcement, military bodies and/or correctional services in the CoE, as of the 5th of January 2018.”316 Images downloaded from Carriar El Limited website, January 2018 In addition during the 2012-2017 period there have been examples of the promotion of such items by non-CoE companies at CoE arms and security fairs and exhibitions. 315 Carriar El Limited, Anti-riot equipment, https://www.carriar.eu/anti-riot (accessed 18 January 2018). Correspondence from the Director of Carriar El Trading Limited to the Omega Research Foundation, 5 January 2018. 316 59