Equipment
Equipment commonly carried on the belt includes: handcuffs (and/or PlastiCuffs), radios, baton, hand-held protection devices such as CS spray, pepper spray, firearms and ammunition (in countries where the police routinely carry firearms), TASER, flashlights, batteries, gloves, pens, pencils and keys. The equipment carried largely differs from country to country, and between areas in the same country not only because of choice but natural hazards (eg. pepper spray would freeze in very cold climates)
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Famous quotes containing the word equipment:
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—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
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—Joseph O’Donnell, and Clifford Sanforth. Arthur Perry (Bela Lugosi)
“Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.”
—Betty Rollin (b. 1936)