Most Unique Law Enforcement Firearms

[fantacmet]

Well Gresham Police Depart approves glock, glock, and glock nothing else. Glock 17 or 19 only. Yet there is one officer tht carries some kind of revolver with a 6.5 inch barrel or thereabouts, and 2 or 3 others that carry custom 1911's. Why they can do this and others cannot I have no idea. Interestingly enough the officer carrying the revolver is barely out of his 20's.

Rev. Michael

 

[jeff-10]

Our security chief at school carries a sigma.

The campus cop at the state university that I attended also carried Sigma's.

 

[ruckus3008]

I met an undercover officer in Seattle that was carrying a Desert Eagle.

 

[shin_en]

My local LEOs carry USP .40Fs.

 

[LiquidTension]

Our department issues the HK USPc chambered in .357Sig. One guy has a USP Tactical because his hands are so big he can't really hold the compact

Columbia PD uses Sig 220s, but I'm told they're DAO.

 

[CAS700850]

Around here, teh Sheriff's department issues Glock, the major PD's issue Glock, and the Highway Patrol issues Sig. The probation departments issue Glock. The bailiff's are required to carry Glock. The only interesting differences are the chief bailiff, a retired homicide detective, who overruled the policy, actually had the presiding judge sign off allowing j-frame revolvers. Note the use of the word "revolvers". Yep, he carries a pair of Smith Model 60's, and is very good with them. We shoot together whenever we get the chance. And the detectives with the Sheriff's Department have an approved list, and are not restricted to Glocks like the uniform deputies. I've seen a Browning Hi-Power, a Colt Python, and on one occassion an ASP.

 

[mattk]

Slightly OT:
There used to be a PD in the Southwest that had one of the big poodles(standard maybe) as K9.

I can see it.

"We're sending in the dog!!"
"That ball of of fluff! HAHAHA. OWE! HELP! GET THIS DOG OFF OF MEEEE!"

 

[seeker_two]

In East Texas, a person may get elected sheriff, but they're not REALLY sheriff until they start carrying a 1911 with their initials in German Silver inlayed in the grips...

Travel to any East Texas town. You'll see I'm right...

 

[Creeping Incrementalism]

One of my LEO buddies tells me that the local PD just got 2 Saiga 12s to play around with. They're thinking about sticking em in the patrol cars.

During Katrina, I saw pictures of NOPD patrolling with Mak-90s in a Minivan. Confiscated, I'm sure, since I read that the department only issued rifles to their Swat team. But considering what they were doing, I thought it was appropriate that had some Commie rifles.

But I highly doubt a department would ever formally issue anything with a Kalashnikov look, especially as the between-the-seats shotgun--it's just not a policitcally correct firearm in the U.S., even for police.

 

[pete f]

I know that for a while Chicago PD had a armored car (an old Gage- Cadillac, i think) that had a turret mounted heavy weapon on it as well as a water cannon and a ram. I saw it once in a parade and I am pretty sure it was a 20 MM or so, Much bigger that a M2, It was used once after a concert(it may have been the DiscoDemolition) using its water cannon to pursuade people to leave the area around Commisky Park.


In the seventies, I got pulled over by a sheriff deputy in western Montana on the way to go skiing and the guy was wearing a double lowride gunfighters outfit with two SAA's. Both the deputy and the rig looked to have been around a long while. He was fine man, just let me off with a warning that although there was a speedlimit and I was breaking it, he did not see fit to ruin my impression of Montana by giving me a ticket for only going 88 in a 55 mph zone, driving a conversion van and pulling a small trailer but that he wished in the future I would consider keeping it under 80mph.

I have never seen anyother cop who would have had the ability to pull a gunfighters outfit off as duty wear.

 

[Checkman]

When my dad entered law enforcement in the early seventies he was issued a Stevens semi-auto 12 guage with an external choke and a 26" barrel. His rifle was a Savage Model 99 in 308. His handgun was a Model 28 Highway Patrolman with a six inch barrel.In addition to those weapons he had a leather sap and no body armor.

When he retired in 94 his sidearm was a S&W 45 semi-auto, Remington 870 riot gun with an 18" barrel and a Ruger mini-14. This was the same department that had issued him those classics over twenty years earlier. He also had a 2nd Chance vest, Pepper Spray and an expandable PR-24. The times did change.

For those who are curious his old department now issues the Glock 21, AR-15 carbine and the Remington 870's fire less lethal munitions. The officers also carry Tasers, Pepper spray, cell phones, Asps and body armor. Wow.

 

[DHFirearms]

oops

 

[Jacobus Rex]

The court baliff in my county wears a Colt SAA.