Deputies can more easily open them to cool down. The Polk County Sheriff's Office made an initial purchase of more than 750 vest covers in June, paying for them with about $95,000 in court-awarded ...

In order to test a new 'smart' protective vest, an experimenter wearing one jogged several kilometers on a treadmill in a climate-controlled chamber. During the jog he lost 544 grams in weight ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Sacramento police K-9s are now sporting some new protective gear all thanks to a 12-year-old philanthropist. Every K-9 officer in the department will now wear a ballistic ...