Posted on 05/07/2009 8:50:03 PM PDT by Steelfish
Sikh policemen to get bulletproof turbans so they can join firearms units
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 07th May 2009
A Sikh police officer wears a traditional turban - which is not bulletproof
Police are trying to develop bullet-proof turbans for Sikh officers to wear instead of helmets.
The headwear would allow those who insist on always wearing turbans to join gun or riot squads for the first time.
Scientists are investigating whether bullet-proof Kevlar could be used for the 15ft strip of cloth a turban requires.
British Police Sikh Association vice-chairman Gian Singh Chahal said: 'Sikh officers have been prohibited from becoming firearms officers because our religion does not allow us to remove the turban.
'Nor can we wear the NATO helmet for public order policing.'
He said research had already begun into finding the perfect material to create a ballistic turban, but that the high-tech headgear would need to pass Home Office tests before being used by officers
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Sounds like a limited solution, as the first bullet or two would knock the turban off their head.
um, how heavy is it?
Well then, they should not be firearms officers. Sounds like they’ve made their decision, they need to deal with the consequences.
Let em reinforce themselves.
We could do worse than to have Sikhs on a UN peace keeping team. They wield a wicked blade, I understand.
Oops, I should have said as bobbies. That’s a British affair, let them handle it.
“Sounds like a limited solution, as the first bullet or two would knock the turban off their head”.
...especially after their hair dries! Turbans much lighter then.
Don’t ‘f’ with him...
Wouldn’t a helmet be easier to manage? Or is that just asking too much?!
I think Indy proved that gun beats blade any day.
Police Departments around the world have made allowances for sikhs. The NYPD issues a blue turban.
And, US police on normal beat aren’t helmeted. It must be something about British and gunphobia, that if you’re a bobby packing heat you must have a helmet.
So I could wear my minnow bucket if I worshiped fish?
I think we should make turban’s illegal in the US. And if they don’t like it, we threaten to bomb Mecca. Just a suggestion...
Look, the Brits are just happy to have the Sikhs working for ‘em. I’ve worked with them in the past, and they are pretty much Boy Scouts. Well, Boy Scouts with big knives. In my opinion, they are definitely the good guys.
If the cops want to come up with a special helmet for them, that’s fine business. They’re really an interesting group of folks. Given the religious precepts they live by, they would seem to make the perfect cops. Just my opinion.
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"Lieutenant John Hudson, who commanded a company of the Royal Bombay Sappers & Miners, wrote that 'getting soaked went with jungle life. We were often so wet, night and day, that our whole bodies became white and wrinkled like an old washerwoman's hands'.
Shirts rotted off soldiers' backs, and the bodies of the dead deteriorated in the heat: they became shiny, translucent black and bloated like a Michelin Man.
Lt Sam Horner, of 2 Royal Norfolks, recalled that 'the heat, humidity, altitude and the slope of almost every foot of ground combined to knock the hell out of the stoutest constitution.
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The 14th Army was a polyglot force, consisting of British, Australians, Canadians, South Africans, Burmese, Chinese, Africans and, chiefly, the Indian Army, the largest volunteer army in history. "
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"Then there was Umrao Singh, in command of a forward field gun detachment, who came under sustained fire from guns and mortars. Twice wounded, and while firing a Bren gun, he directed the fire of the surviving gun on the target.
He held the gun pit until dawn, and was found face down in the mud surrounded by ten lifeless Japanese soldiers and holding a hand-spike he had used in hand-to-hand combat. Singh survived and was awarded the Victoria Cross."
Khukris unsheathed, Gurkha troops charge the enemy lines in Burma.
Indian soldiers storm a German trench, after exploding it with hand grenades.
A Lt Colonel from the 20th Indian Division accepts the formal surrender of a Japanese Commander at Saigon, Vietnam, in September 1945.
A group from the 152nd Para Battalion displaying the Japanese flag they captured at Tangkhul Hundung. ( Photograph: Bharat-Rakshak.com )
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Indian Paratroopers during World War II, with a British officer. Source: Parachute Regiment (India).
The first Indians to parachute - Captain Rangaraj (right) and Havildar Major Mathura Singh (left).
British and Indian troops exchange pleasantries as they meet on the road between Imphal and Kohima following the successful relief of the Kohima box. Circa April 1944.
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An Italian soldier surrenders to a Jawan, during Operation Crusader, of an unnamed Division and Regiment, on 08 December 1941. The purpose of Operation Crusader was two-fold; to relieve Tobruk and destroy the Afrika Korp. First part of the conflict was a success, the second a failure. The battle took place between the Egyptian border and El Agheila in Libya.
An Indian soldier holds a captured Nazi flag. Circa 1945.
Medium artillery guns get unusual attention from their detachments.
Indian paratroopers being dropped at Elephant Point, Burma on 1 May 1945.
Flag captured from the 90th Panzer Light Division at Ruweisat Ridge. Circa 1942.
A Lieutenant Colonel from the 20th Indian Division, accepts the formal surrender of a Japanese Commander at Saigon, Vietnam in September 1945.
A group from the 152nd Para Battalion displaying the Japanese flag they captured while operating against the Japanese Army at Tangkhul Hundung. Circa 1945.
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