What’s next? Pink guns and high heels?

Police officers in Anderson, California will now be armed with nunchucks — or “nunchakus” — in an effort to “more compassionately gain compliance” from suspects, NBC News reports.

“The Anderson Police Department is implementing the police nunchaku as a tool to more effectively arrest, control, and subdue non-compliant suspects,” Chief Michael Johnson says.

“The nunchaku can be deployed to more compassionately gain compliance from a suspect through pain application opposed to striking, as customary with the side-handled or straight baton.”

The chief is hoping nunchucks will alter the cops’ “aggressive” image.

“In an era where the general public is extremely sensitive to police techniques and use of force issues, [nunchucks offer] another force option that may offset some of the more aggressive perceptions the public has about police intervention,” Johnson claims.

Nunchucks are typically two wooden sticks or bars connected by a chain. In Anderson’s case, they are “made of a hard plastic connected by a nylon cord designed to wrap around wrists and ankles,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

“I see the value and the safety they bring to me,” says Sgt. Casey Day, a 15-year member of the force.

Nunchucks were popularized through actor Bruce Lee’s movies. He typically used them to beat up his opponents.

Police say they’ll use them merely to subdue suspects.

“But Anderson police insist they can detain someone with them in a relatively peaceful way,” the Times reports.