Clothing and Equipment for Security Personnel

Every community, city, state and nation has its own law enforcement force. These people are absolutely necessary to prevent unscrupulous elements from gaining entry and disrupting normal life. Law enforcement personnel need specialized equipment and clothing to perform at the highest efficiency. These equipment are used by private security forces and few individuals who work in public safety field.

I recently came across the website of CHIEF, a dealership which sells over 300 brands of public safety gear and apparel. One of the famous line of apparel they sell is under armour, which has been preferred by Fire, EMS, Law Enforcement and related professionals during the past 30 odd years.

This long stint in the business has given CHIEF the edge and advantage which enables them to price the products competitively, provide excellent customer service, fast delivery and computerized order taking.

Shopping with CHIEF has several advantages such as worry-free ordering via internet, telephone, fax and mail. That is not all if you are not satisfied you can return the product within 90-days for a replacement or refund. If you are in the market for tactical gear or clothing don't bother to search for anything other than CHIEF.

In Texas it is illegal to dry clothes in the sun!

I never knew that there were so many restrictions to personal freedom in Texas till I read a letter from one of the harassed residents to the editor of Dallas Morning News recently. The writer lamented that the home owners association (HOA) of the community she lives in has outlawed clotheslines. And as such she had been forced to use the noisy, power-hungry drier.

The letter was followed up by an interesting and humourour column by Steve Blow, one of my favourite columnists. In this easy-to-read essay Blow fondly remembered his childhood fun times in the backyard when he and his siblings had swung off clotheslines much to the irritation of their mother and also about the fresh, crispy feel of sun-dried clothes etc.

I wonder what is going wrong with Texas, on the one hand there is extreme freedom. One can buy M-16 machine guns off the shelf in a hunting goods store and shoot anyone who steps into their yard without permission. All in the name of Freedom to protect self and family. But on the other hand there are extreme restrictions. If one wants to go hiking, he/ she has to follow a pre-set, well-defined and often barricaded and paved hiking trail. And if one wants to have a compound wall around their property the HOA has to approve it and if they don't your home site has to remain naked and exposed.

And now there is this new law which I am becoming aware of. You can't dry your clothes in the sun. That is it, you have to use a drier, spend electricity and pay the bill. No wonder corporations are making money in the US. If 300 million people are forced to not use the FREE unlimited natural resource of solar energy and use exhorbitantly priced, finite resource of electricity, the corporations which provide electricity will obviously make tons of money.

In places like Texas where 8 months a year there is abundant and bright sunlight one should encourage use of solar energy for everything: Lighting, heating, drying clothes and whatever else possible. But no, that would be cheap, only poor dry their clothes in the sun, not rich Texans. Anyway, who am I to coment on these idiosyncracies... I am after all not from here.