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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, April 12, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes paged body bunkers7 give police Protection from gunfire a photo a Boston patrolman demonstrates the body Boston a police have taken up a new weapon against crime handheld Shields called body bunkers that make officers look like medieval knights in Black Armor while allowing them to deflect bullets from almost any the in models up to 4 feet tall that Cost nearly give us another police superintendent Martin Mulkern said this is not a fair what Are we supposed to go ahead and shoot at us Boston police Are the first in the country to order the Shields from Protech armoured products of new said company president Arnold he we Are delivering them to three other agencies this including one Agency of the govern the Shields were developed by retired Green Beret Den Nis Shields go Back to the Days of the Mulkern but these Are like an armoured truck that can go inside a they can defuse a Mulkern said the Boston police department owns enough of the heavy duty Fabrican Metal Shields to protect five but he would not reveal the precise num criminals read the he we dont want to let them know what weve got in our Mulkern said the department plans to buy enough Shields to protect any full shift of officers among the the Shields come in three the 24 by 48 weighs 30 pounds and costs the smallest 18 by 30 weighs 9 pounds and costs heavy when your life is a you dont think about said the which have Small bulletproof viewing can deflect bullets from 9mm ber magnums and a variety of other said mul it stops just about he its Inczedi Mulkern said the Force has used the Shields during drug raids and arrests since last summer and they have been especially useful in the fight against drug one time we went into a building and the people inside just dropped their he they realized its Point less to shoot at us our officers think the Shields Are i dont think they hit a building without them its changed our whole he admitted the Shields make police officers look like the Antiterrorist forces in but the aver age la abiding citizen on the Street has nothing to these will help us protect innocent just another Nosy neighbor a photo Fivey Earold Travis Johnson says Good who is a temporary guest at the the 7yearold tame circus who to travis1 Dotty is just lazing morning to a neighbor named Johnson family Home in lives on a nearby 10acre farm belonging around while Olson is away on a  
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