ARMOUR FOR POLICE.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 1233, 27 August 1929, Page 4

ARMOUR FOR POLICE.

Chief constables all over the country ■have had brought to^ytheir notice a form of armour plating for policemen, the invention of Mr Robert Gladstone, of Liverpool. The idea — an ingenious one — has been worked out by the inventor m view of the increasing use of'.lireanns> by criminals. It recalls the sensational episode of the, Sydney street siege of 1911." On that occasion, it. will be remembered, the> police ; were battled, and several" wounded, because tney had, no movable "coyer" under which they could face the terrific pistol fire from the 1 house. ' : " Mr Gladstone's device consists of a folding steel . serene mounted on a bandy truck with two rubber-tyrea wheels, which forms a sort of tank truck;" There are two narrow slits, m the .screen and an aperture tnrougn which' the advancing policeman can fire a revolver. / ; A remarkable box for tear-gas bombs, or for spare handcuffs, batons or other weapons, is fitted on the back of the screen. r

The truck also .carries a portable land shield, which can be used when altering a house. It is presumably Juliet proof. As policemen advance on he criminals they take their truck, >ne wheeling-, the other close behind, md they are provided with powerful :rowbars, a sledge hammer) and aii ix». "■ ■_'■.. ; ; ' ■•■ ' Shields have been tested on standard weapons, including th'e Webley iervice revolver, tfie "M.P." pistol, md the Wfetissr pistQi.v

Use of such instruments as these shields is not ofteit necessary, but their undoubted value m certain emergency cases has caused their merits to be carefully, inquired into by the policeauthorities. " \ ■'

, The cost of the truck shiejd com-; plete, with hand shield, ,-crowbars, and general outfit, works out at about £±S. . : ■ ■ •■.-■ - • _

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