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it seems we get more police person for our pound these days ;)

Police uniform suppliers SELL OUT of giant 56-inch waist belts

Uniform stockists at Emergency Service Supplies have completely sold out of the XXXL size of their Portec SD1 duty belt for heavy-built officers with waists measuring between 50 and 56 inches, with only one XXL belt remaining.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/582...-fitness-tests

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Is the belt for over the Stab vest or outside the Hi-Viz jacket?

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is that a serious question ? i'm a big lad and i have a 34" waist with a 56" belt i could get another person in there with me ;)

how thick is a stab vest 10"

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If you've got a 56" waist then you don't need a stab vest. The blubber will do fine.;)

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M or F :D

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Fat police can't run.

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Talking about police,have you ever seen anything as despicable as this?

View at your discretion,it's created a huge storm on another forum I use.
If admin wish to delete it,I have no problem.

EDIT - Removed, not sure we need to see a death on here. Plus it's in the USA and totally irrelevant to the topic.

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but you get a bigger surface area of copper for your £ its a bargain its like 2-4 -1 at tesco ;)

you can see why they don't have bicycles any more too much bum for the saddle .

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If you wait a while Derek will be along with a perfectly reasonable explanation that also coincidentally sticks up for his colleagues at the same time

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it'll be a good reason to arm the police with tasers their too fat to run after suspects :)

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Too fat to get out the car too :)

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No need, there are plenty of experts here who know absolutely everything about how Policing should be done but won't tell anyone else.

Anyway yes duty belts come in all sizes and going over armour, 2-3 layers of clothing etc means larger sizes are often ordered. Mine is 40-46 inches (I think, it's been a while since I've been in uniform) and my normal belt size is 30-32.

That said a single supplier 'selling out', with no indication of how many they had initially and the same belt being available from many other UK retailers doesn't exactly show there is an obesity epidemic amongst UK cops.

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Well when you got the doughnut shops reporting that they've run out of doughnuts. you got to expect the worst :)

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a disturbing incident

Cash-strapped police force struggling to put bobbies on the beat gets team of top detectives on the case when thief swipes the cream cakes from their office fridge

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Manchester police have always been over protective when it comes to their cream cakes.
and their doughnuts.

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I would ask for your expertise and guidance on how to investigate such a heinous crime but I know you don't have a clue and wouldn't answer.

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at first i thought it might be the jelly mob but then i thought what about the custard cream mob ,its clear someone's had their trotters in the trough don't you worry i will leave no scone un-turned i wont stop until the piepertrator is behind bars- tasers on stun ;)who ever it was they must be a pretty smart cookie to get the cakes out from under so many trained noses .

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I feel sorry for the fattest copper.
they obviously suspected him right from the start :)

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once i solve the case the police can celebrate with a truffle shuffle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5whaRkuipU

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Since they got rid of minimum heights and other requirements, some of the force is an absolute joke.

I stress, " some" .

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Some of them are little kids that nobody takes seriously.

and then you got all the fat ones.

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But it discriminated against certain minorities that are naturally shorter and it's a service not a force, having seen some of them in action they couldn't force anyone to do anything

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That's from the article.

Now, what *is* the fitness exam. The paper makes it sounds like they run 15 metres then stop at the bleep. How may runs would they need? 20?30? I've done those shuttle runs and with enough reps they can be very tough. Having said that, if the paper actually said how many they did (rather than seeming to infer it is one), it would not look as damning.

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Level 5.4, not much more than a light jog.

Specialist departments like firearms have higher levels.

Not exactly taxing at the lower end but if they make it far higher then fitness time in working hours would probably have to get worked in somewhere.

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It just means they're more likely to use their tasers :D

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its not just tasers when you have 56 " of utility belt to fasten the goodies on to