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Law Enforcement Technology June 2014 www.officer.com
EQUIPPING THE OFFICER
is always to conduct render safe proce-
dures as remotely as possible.
IEDs come in many shapes and sizes,
and the fact that they're improvised
makes them fairly easy to make inex-
pensively, though this doesn't take away
from their lethal capability. Upon deto-
nation there's usually mass destruction,
not to mention death and/or injury
Circle 89 on Reader Service Card
"The frst time I experienced
an explosive detonation and
felt the blast wave, I knew
that's what I wanted to do."
— Chris Cowan, retired bomb squad
commander for the Winnebago
County (Illinois) Sheriff's Department
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