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Patrol gloves

Invest in a comfortable, well fitting pair of duty gloves. The right pair of gloves will help to protect your hands from everything from cuts and scrapes to skin-on-skin contact with unsavory arrestees. They give you a little extra grip when its time to go hands on, and they enhance your “5%-er” image of an officer who is ready for anything.

Make sure they fit well, the palm surface isn’t slick, and mostly importantly, that you are as proficient with all of your tools, including your firearms, with the gloves as without, which means you need to practice with the gloves on before you make them a part of your daily tactical wear.

Take it from a veteran, gloves are worth the money and the effort.

My column is undergoing a bit of an identity crisis. I’ve been writing for the Street Survival “Newsline” and the P1 Newsletter for several years. As a Street Survival seminar instructor, I write about officer safety and survival, but I’m also a supervisor, a mom, a trainer, a cop’s wife, and dare I say, a woman, so I’ve got a lot to say about any number of topics (what woman doesn’t?!), and I’ve always received great feedback from our readers. So when Police One approached me and asked me to author a monthly column dealing with women’s issues, I enthusiastically agreed. “What a great opportunity” I naively thought “to bring issues to light that both women and men in law enforcement could all relate to, perhaps discuss at roll call, and ultimately learn something from each other.” Yeah, just call me Sergeant Pollyanna…I forgot that by calling it a “women’s” column, not only will most of our male readers skip over it, but so will at least half our female readers. What?! Why in the world wouldn’t women read a “women’s” column?! Because, there are a lot of female crimefighters out there like me who have spent a lot of years just trying to blend in, to be “one of the guys” if you will…to be perceived as and conduct ourselves as “warriors,” not “victims.” We don’t want special treatment; we just want to be cops.
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