I have to get my brother a birthday present. He is joining the police.
Is there any particular piece of paraphenalia that all police-persons need and are not issued with, or something you are issued with that is so crappy you immediately go out and buy your own?
Fanks
Jon 🙂
Pink furry handcuffs...
P.A.C.E?
Is there any particular piece of paraphenalia that all police-persons need and are not issued with
A sense of humour
Expecting the first three replies on this to be from police-persons offering constructive suggestions was astoundingly naive of me, wasn't it?
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good torches ??? decent shoes? waterproof socks?
I am guessing but at least more productively than above.
a big torch for making tail lights defective worked at checkpoints in ireland i suspect it would also double up as some other item 😉 mag lights are the bizz
a traffic wallet
look on websites such as Niton999.co.uk or police-supllies.co.uk
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Sorbathane padded shoe inserts for all the beat pounding...or should that be mouse wrist-rest for all the paperwork these days?
The ex-husband of a friend of my wife's used to make little gore-tex pouches for adding to polis belts for storing notepads, etc. Might be something similar online?
what a Charlie Uniform November Tango 😉
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You could get a decent torch - the ones we get given are pants. Try the Cyba-Lite Auro, about £10 on ebay.
And a proper handcuff key - look at the HK01 on this [url= http://www.gladstoneboots.com/acatalog/Streamlight_Cuffmate.html ]clicky[/url].
Key-ring holders are really useful too - look at the ZT55 on this [url= http://www.enforce-logic.co.uk/handcuff_keys.htm ]clicky[/url]
And/or one of [url= http://www.copshopuk.com/acatalog/Peli_Versabrite_III_Torch.html ]these[/url] - they are brilliant
Traffic wallet (see link below) and a good led torch. Smaller the better, so avoid a foot long maglite.
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A good LED torch.
What was that thing Sean Connery carried around with him in Untouchables? Patron Saint of lost causes.
If he was a film buff he may appreciate the sentiment
The Shurefire 6P torch was one of the favourites a while back, but it may have been overtaken by some of the LED types now.
blimey there's a lot of closet rozzers on here 🙂 Better be on best behaviour I think!
How about an [url=
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something they don't actually seem to teach coppers these days...
My brother is a learned man with a phd in social anthropology who can also do press-ups on his middle fingers.
Thanks for the ideas folks, much appreciated.
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Is there any particular piece of paraphenalia that all police-persons need and are not issued with
One of these :
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Make sure that as you lob it at him, you inform him that it's for becoming an instrument of state oppression and the ruling imperialist clique.
It is a difficult thing to accept Gus, but I am afraid that fraternal affection overcomes my natural wariness of the agents of my oppression. 😉
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Haven't seen many coppers carrying these lately.
Not sure where you'd get it from.......
DrP
Shepherds Bush Market?
Nice Glock, not exactly H&C though 😉
