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Tactical Equipment - To Serve All Needs And Uses

It may surprise you to know that most often tactical equipment is not conceptualized by scientists or engineers, but rather by those with the highest level of expertise, to wit, people who themselves are or have been in law enforcement or the armed forces. These are the types of people who develop expertise by having used the gear that is out there and know what is needed out in the field. One example is Blackhawk Tactical. This company was founded by an operative in the Special Forces who found himself unhappy with the quality of the gear that he was issued. As a result, Blackhawk Tactical was born and has become one of the leading brands of tactical gear.

When searching for a store to meet your tactical equipment needs, you want to find one that not only carries good, quality gear, but also one that has a high quantity of different types and brands. The types of items that a decent tactical gear store should carry include belts, boots, battering rams, flashlights, knives, tactical holsters with packs, vests, shooting mats, medical gear, hydration packs, and drop leg pouches. They should also carry a wide variety of accessories, such as clothing, chest and eye protection, armor, duffel bags to carry the equipment, weapons, shoes, gloves, equipment for outdoor protection, and other things of that nature. When shopping for this type of gear, look to ensure it has been approved by either an authorized establishment or the government. Overall, you want to see a wide variety of gear with many options to choose from within each category.

You can also search online for the type of gear you wish to procure so you can comparison shop before even stepping foot into a store. Most of the best, well-reputed tactical equipment companies also have a customer help line that you can call and receive advice on the best type of equipment to use for specific uses and how to use it.

Tactical equipment specifically geared towards police officers focuses on the needs of officers while in pursuit of a criminal suspect, investigating and preventing criminal activity and riot and crowd control. As such, police officers typically need such gear as flashlights and flashlight holders, batons and baton holders and gun holsters. Police officers also use tactical vests, gloves, special hydration systems, and tactical goggles. The tactical vest worn by police officers serves not only as a backpack, but also as body armor. It can even be used to store extra ammunition, water, or other small items that the officer may need to keep handy.

Tactical equipment is essential for police officers and military personnel to carry out their duties safely and effectively. Not only does this gear protect civilians from harm, but it also helps ensure that police officers and soldiers are safe from serious injury or death. With so many companies out in the market today making and distributing tactical gear, we can rest assured that our law enforcement and armed forces personnel have available to them High Quality equipment to help them do their best in their jobs.

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General Accoutrements Vest: Solution or Problem?

There have been a number of articles, forum threads, and choir-practice conversations over the last few years in all Australian Police organisations about the inadequate accoutrement belts being issued to operational uniformed members.

 

The “inadequacy” of these belts is that they cannot carry the multitude of tools required for operational policing these days, and of greater concern, that these issue belts are actually causing serious injuries among officers. These injuries range from insomnia, back strains, sciatic aggravation, and a multitude of other injuries that in quite a few cases are considered to be a work-related injury.

 

Obviously, if a piece of equipment is causing injury, or is not up to the task required of it, then something should be done, yes?

 

But what options are there?

 

NSW Police has tried issuing a different type of belt, to see if that would fix the problem. For some people it has. But then you have the silly issue of the belt being used operationally is not the belt members are allowed to use when they undertake their OSTT / Firearms re-qualifications. Just another example of idiots running things.....but let’s not go there.

 

Almost all Australian Police organisations have “trialled” an accoutrement vest for GD’s members. Some of these trials saw operational members wearing the vests on duty and providing feedback. Other trial versions, and the only ones I have personally seen, were a case of the vest sitting in the office of a non-operational member, and entire decisions being based on that office environment.

 

Apparently the general consensus was that the vest was too “tactical” or “military” in appearance, and we all know how adverse our respective Police Managers are regarding our Police being seen as anything other than blue Care Bears. The fact that very similar vests are being worn happily by Ambulance Officers seems to be ignored by Police Management.

 

Somehow, another vest was sourced, and trialled. The “General Accoutrement Vest” (GAV) is made by an Australian company, Personal Protective Clothing, (PPC), in Victoria. Again, this vest has been “trialled” by operational Police, and I have yet to hear one Officer who has trialled it saying that they would wear it. In fact, the only comments I have received from testing Officers is that they refused to wear it after one day due to the fact that it was either too hot to wear, or it looked utterly ridiculous.

 

But they have been ignored. At least one Australian Police organisation has announced that these vests will be rolled out. The initial idea is that it is only going to be provided as an option to the smaller-stature officers, and possibly those with documented back injuries.

 

I have my concerns.

 

Firstly, and this needs to be addressed. The vest looks like either a bra on steriods, or something out of a Sado-Masochist’s fantasy wardrobe ensemble. PPC’s website states that the GAV provides the public with a “Unique Visual Memory”. So does a clown costume, but that does not mean it is a good idea to have our frontline Police wearing a clown costume!

 

I have shown images of the GAV to Police Officers in Australia and overseas, as well as people who have never been Police Officers, and not one single person said that it provided a professional or even positive appearance. Those people who weren’t too busy laughing were highly critical of the appearance of the GAV. One term used to describe the vest by a Qld Police Officer was “Gay Action Vest”.

 

Police need all the help they can get in doing their job. Having the general public laughing at how they look does NOT help.

 

Secondly, and of more importance, is the ability of a GAV-wearing officer to utilise body armour. I have attempted to contact PPC to have them respond to this one concern, but they refuse to answer my e-mails or return my telephone calls. Maybe they were just too busy?

 

In regard to body armour, a number of points must be raised, which have not been done so in any prior article about the GAV.

 

Accoutrements: The equipment held by the GAV includes an Officer’s radio, baton, cuffs, and ASR / OC. If the body armour is placed over the GAV, then that equipment cannot be used. Imagine being seriously injured and not able to call for help on your radio because it is underneath your body armour? What about trying to defend yourself against assault that does not justify you using your sidearm, but ONLY your sidearm is accessible as everything else is under your body armour?

 

Projectiles / Blunt Force Trauma. Body armour is designed to not only stop the penetration of a bullet, but to also disperse the impact of the bullet over a wide area, to prevent bones being shattered, organs badly bruised, or the shock of the bullet causing other serious injuries, (imagine the force of a bullet impacting over your heart?). The problem with having your accoutrements underneath body armour is that it causes the body armour to become uneven, which may allow bullet penetration, or more likely, the force of the bullet is not dispersed, and can cause pieces of your equipment to be punched into your body. Not really an acceptable situation.

 

Perhaps the GAV is designed to be placed over your body armour? Currently, to use body armour, all a Police Officer has to do is put the armour on.

 

If the GAV was to be used over body armour, this is what would have to happen - The GAV would have to be removed, (itself not a preferred option as the likelihood of losing kit is increased), put the body armour on, adjust the GAV to a larger size, and then put the GAV back on. A much more time consuming process, and if the situation justifies the use of overt body armour, then time is usually something you, or the public, do not have.

 

But why is the GAV being trialled? What is the justification in spending a very large chunk of the tax-payers money on trialling this ..... thing?

 

Current thinking by Police Managers in relation to the previously outlined Police belt issues is that the one and only solution is reducing the amount of weight on the belts. Even numerous Police Union / Association articles have not moved away from this thinking. NSW and Victoria Police have moved to the use of thigh holsters for their sidearms in their erroneous assumption that it will reduce the weight on the belt.

 

Police are problem-solvers. They are meant to think outside the box, so let’s do that now.

 

If weight is the issue regarding Police belts, how can we fix that?

 

Well, who else wears similar weights on their belts?

 

US Police do. Canadian Police do. What do they do to reduce the weight on their belts? They use suspenders. Uncle Mike is just one company that makes suspenders for Law Enforcement belts. They are designed to transfer some of the weight of the belt to the shoulders, which is exactly what the GAV purports to do, and the suspenders are designed to release if some parasite decided to use those suspenders to hold onto an officer.

 

And when LEGEAR can supply these suspenders at $57.40, retail price, you have to wonder why they were not “trialled” prior to Police agencies spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on the GAV. Even if the organisation just agreed to reimburse members buying these suspenders, it would be vastly cheaper than their planned “clown-costume” solution.

 

http://www.legear.com.au/product-p/um-9120-4.htm

 

But is that it? Are all these Officer’s injuries so easily resolved, with just a set of suspenders?

 

What about the belts themselves? Why is it that Police in Australia are allowed to wear the belt that is issued, and ONLY that belt? Police “duty” belts are made by Safariland, Bianchi, Gould & Goodrich, Uncle Mike’s, 5.11, Blackhawk, Galls, LEGear, and a plethora of other recognised companies. But in the face of uncomfortable and injured officers, their employers insist that they must wear the issue belt, or face disciplinary action. In previous articles I have commented that Police organisations should allow their staff to wear equipment that meets a standard, and not just insist that one brand and model can be used.

 

I wore a Bianchi belt for most of my time in the Police, and the biggest feature I noticed was that it allowed more “real estate” on the front of the belt than the issue Safariland belt, due to the Safariland belt having a decorative false buckle that took up a lot of room. More room on your belt mens more ability to move your equipment into a comfortable position.

 

 What if it is not the belt? Why is it that in the last 11 years or so that I have been involved in Policing, I have not once heard of a Canadian or US Police Officer complaining about injuries resulting from wearing their equipment belt? In most cases they actually have more equipment on their belts than Australian Officers. Are Australian Officers just bigger whingers?

 

No. I carried more on my duty belt than all other Police in my regions, (extra cuffs, extra magazine and extra torch), and did so for years. I even slept on concrete floors wearing the damn thing during occasional breaks on my years of double-shifts. Why is it that I do not have any back pain or injuries?

 

I exercise. A large percentage of US and Canadian Police also exercise. Although this subject can take up an entire magazine in itself, it is common knowledge that the best form of prevention and rehabilitation for back injuries is proper exercise. Once our Police leave their respective training colleges, there is no requirement or incentive for them to exercise, which I can guarantee you has resulted in a large portion of injuries to our frontline Police.

 

Instead of spending ridiculous amounts of money on an equally ridiculous looking vest, how about our Police management look at preventing injuries through having fit Police? That would actually show some concern about the health and well-being of our Police rather than just protecting the organisation from future lawsuits.

About the Author

Doug Nicholson served for over 9 years with the Northern Territory Police Force, during which time he worked in remote Aboriginal Communities, was a General Duties Shift Supervisor at the busiest Station in the jurisdiction and became a qualified Workplace Assessor and Trainer. He has travelled to the US for advanced training, as well as worked in both Afghanistan and Iraq as a Security contractor, and is now studying for a degree in Security, Terrorism, and Counter-Terrorism. He is the editor for Response Australia eMagazine, an online publication for Policing in Australia.

Doug can be contacted at editor@responseaustralia.net

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