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Police equipment list is a lengthy one
Body armor equipments, storage equipments, communication tools like phones, iPods, and pagers, office stationery items, and even first aid kits are police equipment depending upon the job that they have. The police force, and its duties, has no existence without perfectly designed, technologically advanced equipment.
When people like smugglers, robbers, or terrorists succeed in harming people and jeopardizing normal life, the question is often asked how they are able to outwit law enforcement agencies so easily. Part of the answer might be economic situations or ideological commitments, but it is sometimes suggested that antisocial elements are often in possession of sophisticated performance equipments. While police equipment is always of crucial importance, in this context, right equipment gains a larger than life importance.
police equipment spans such a wide spectrum that a descriptive account of the right equipment will fill several pages. Equipment used by a certain contingent of policemen will vary from that used by another contingent, depending upon the duty on which they are deployed. Batons, guns, grenades, knives, handcuffs, holsters, chemical sprays, tasers, and forensic kits are the police equipment that is invariably used by policemen going to subdue a mob or control a crime scene. Even in the use of this equipment, rules on usage could vary from country to country or state to state.
A Taser is a police equipment item, which works by giving an electric shock that temporarily incapacitates a person by affecting his muscle functions. Tasers come in many models and are sometimes used by private individuals as well. Those Taser models that are part of police equipment can also function in what is known as 'drive stun' mode when the Taser does not incapacitates a person but causes significant pain.
Though tasers are definitely less lethal than guns, because of the unique functionality of tasers, there were controversies going on regarding the allowable extent of its usage as a part of police equipment, and about defining the situation when Taser usage can be considered apt. While rules of certain places allow the use of tasers if the criminal or crime suspect is resisting arrest, other places allow its usage only if there is substantial threat to an individual's or a building's safety, or if there is risk to someone's life. In places where the rule is the latter, use of tasers as police equipment is likely to be quite limited.
Lots of body armor material and storage material like head gear, bullet proof vests, night vision goggles, groin protectors, tactical boots, and storage pouches for ammunition, magazine etc. are necessary police equipment. Other objects that can be included in the list are communication instruments like phones, radios, and pagers; forensic kits; instruments necessary for collecting samples of blood or other body fluids; and first aid kits. Even routine office equipment like notebooks, paper, pencil, and paperclips can be considered police equipment under certain circumstances.
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As a cub reporter for the McKeesport (PA.) Daily News I got an early education into the working minds of local politicians and a first-hand glimpse at two young movie actors who are now screen legends.
It was the summer of 1977, and it was sweltering in Pittsburgh. As the beat reporter for the City of Clairton - it was my job to know everything that was going on in the community - including its politics, police and fire activities, and the schools.
Clairton is located along the banks of the Monongahela River - 14 miles southeast of the City of Pittsburgh. It was (and more so now) a distressed city. It was home to the Clairton Coke Works - and by 1977 already had its share of unfavorable press attention stemming from high unemployment, a rising crime rate and declining economic base.
But residents were proud of their town and worked hard at every turn to ward off any unfavorable perceptions that might do the city harm.
Thus it was no surprise when Mayor Lloyd Fuge - a bright and successful attorney - asked me to accompany and drive him (Lloyd had lost his sight in an accident as a young boy) to the Pittsburgh International Airport Holiday Inn some 30 miles away where he hoped to meet up with a young movie director by the name of Michael Cimino.
The mayor had received word that Cimino was directing a movie that was to take place in a small steel town named Clairton. He feared that once again the city would be on the receiving end of bad press - this time on the big screen before a national audience.
His goal for the meeting was to convince the director to change the name of the city where the movie would take place. Although he had no idea what the movie was about or how the city was going to be portrayed - he feared the worst.
We arrived at the motel and went straight to the front desk where Mayor Fuge asked the desk clerk to find Mr. Cimino for him. When asked who he should say was requesting to see him - the mayor authoritatively flipped open an official police "badge," and simply said, "I am".
As mayor, Mr. Fuge was head of Clairton's police department (although he had no jurisdiction at this location) but his unusual movie-style ploy had the desired effect - a worried Mr. Cimino arrived within minutes.
We sat in the lobby of the motel where Mayor Fuge first apologized for his novel approach in getting Mr. Cimino's attention - then articulated his concern that Clairton might be unfavorably portrayed in his movie. At one point Mayor Fuge said that he might seek an injunction to stop the director from using the name Clairton in the movie.
The director was concerned and went to great lengths to reassure the mayor that the movie would in no way damage the image of Clairton - "It's about relationships of people," he said, describing the script.
The mayor was satisfied and the meeting ended - but as part of the solution and to show transparency - Mr. Cimino invited me to watch the filming the next day to see for myself that the City of Clairton was not the focus of the movie.
I arrived on a high bluff in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, for the filming of a funeral scene the next day. The film crew had taken an abandoned piece of property and turned it into a makeshift cemetery. It was a 90-degree day - so they dyed surrounding tree leaves red/orange and large fans were brought in to create the illusion of a windy-cold fall day.
The movie was The Deer Hunter - winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1978. Mr. Cimino won the Academy Award for Best Director.
That day following the funeral scene - Mr. Cimino escorted me to an unassuming trailer where he set up an interview for me with one of the movie's lead actors - someone by the name of Robert DeNiro. We talked for a while about the movie and his method as an actor.
As the interview ended, he turned to an actress inside the same trailer and said to me, "I want you to interview the real star of the movie - meet Meryl Streep".
The Deer Hunter put the actress on the map, and the City of Clairton, too.
Robb Austin is a former newspaper reporter and elected Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and has successfully run numerous Congressional campaigns. Learn more at http://robbaustin.com