| Hand-held Metal Detectors are designed to | | | | rechargeable NiMH batteries. |
| safeguard security-sensitive areas like schools, | | | | Hand-held metal detectors are most commonly |
| courtrooms, corrections facilities, sports events, | | | | used for body searches for weapons in crowd |
| businesses, nightclubs, bars and other public areas | | | | control, and checking parcels and letters. Garret |
| and events. They are used along with | | | | manufactures some of the best hand-held |
| walk-through metal detectors. Construction crews | | | | scanners in the world. The Garrett Enforcer G-2 is |
| and woodworkers also use hand-held metal | | | | the smallest body scanner and sensitive enough |
| detectors to find dangerous nails or other metallic | | | | to detect even the smallest of knives or guns. |
| debris in reclaimed building materials and trees. | | | | The most popular one is the Super Scanner. It |
| A recent study proves that hand-held metal | | | | can detect hatpins as small as one inch. |
| detectors are just as accurate as x-rays in finding | | | | When hand-held detectors are switched on, a red |
| coins and other metallic objects swallowed by | | | | signal pattern in transmitted from the coil to the |
| children. They are cheaper and radiation-free, are | | | | ground. When the signal comes in contact with a |
| usually lightweight, highly sensitive and require little | | | | metal, it interrupts the signal and the detector |
| maintenance. The special shape of the sensitive | | | | alerts the user with an audio signal and flashing |
| surface makes operation of the device easy, | | | | lights. Hand held detectors are of various types -- |
| unlike portable metal detectors with ring | | | | commercial, professional, all-purpose, beach, gold |
| transducers. They come with 9V batteries or | | | | metal, relic metal and 2-box deep searchers. |