Abstract: A V-shaped safety shield for a pair of handcuffs including a pair of wristlets interconnected with a flexible chain is provided. The safety shield includes a housing having a first end portion and a second end portion angularly disposed relative to the first end portion. The housing is positionable about the chain of the handcuffs such that the wristlets are extendable from the first and second end portions of the housing in an angular relationship to one another when the housing is positioned about the chain such that upon securing the wristlets about the wrists of an individual the wristlets are disposed substantially concentrically around the wrists of the individual when the individual's wrists are positioned in a substantially corresponding angular relationship.