Police-persons – Help wanted!

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?

🙂

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

The Beat Officers Companion

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 😉

Perverting the Course of Justice: The Hilarious and Shocking Inside Story of British Policing

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 clicky.

Key-ring holders are really useful too – look at the ZT55 on this clicky

And/or one of these – they are brilliant

Traffic wallet (see link below) and a good led torch. Smaller the better, so avoid a foot long maglite.

Clifton Canvas

All sorts of policey bits here:

http://www.gladstoneboots.com/

Their SWAT footwear is very comfy.

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 educational book?

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.

🙂

Is there any particular piece of paraphenalia that all police-persons need and are not issued with

One of these :

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. 😉

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 😉