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The Bureau of Justice Assistance/ Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) report in 2009 found 59 percent of agencies require officers to wear body armor at least some of the time. The BJA/PERF Body Armor National Survey: Protecting the Nation's Law Enforcement Officers is based on the response...

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Published inLaw Enforcement Technology Vol. 37; no. 10; p. 42
Main Author Kanable, Rebecca
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Fort Atkinson SouthComm Business Media LLC 01.10.2010
Subjects
Armor
Behavior modification
Compliance
Criminal investigations
Fatalities
Firearms
Law enforcement
Police
Protective clothing
United States > US
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Summary:The Bureau of Justice Assistance/ Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) report in 2009 found 59 percent of agencies require officers to wear body armor at least some of the time. The BJA/PERF Body Armor National Survey: Protecting the Nation's Law Enforcement Officers is based on the response of a nationally representative sample of the country's nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies, of which 80 percent, or 782, responded.
ISSN:0747-3680
1948-5689