I don't actually remember if it was in our policy manual when we finally got one but it's been know to happen on occassion.

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I think I was only ever issued Peerless cuffs although I did buy a couple of pairs of the stainless Smiths with the slide double lock. I actually liked the slide lock.

I was issued a pair of hinged one time but I never got it back after one of those group arrests where they were hauled away by someone else. I don't know if I ended my career with any cuffs I was issued and only one pair of my Smiths. Even the marked ones tended to get mixed up.

I generally carried two sets of cuffs on my belt and two more on the spotlight handle.

I believe my leg chains were Hiatts.

I have one old pair an old widdow gave me her husband had carried up north somewhere. I need to give them to some young cop now.