The Bakersfield Police Department was poised to toss a pile of old equipment in the dumpster.
Then training officer Jim Moore had an interesting idea.
Why not send it to Iraq?
The gun belts, baby-blue riot helmets and leather radio holders are out of date for Bakersfield police.
But they’d work just fine for fledgling police departments in Iraq.
So Moore called up a buddy.
Moore went to South High with Major Joe Gann of the Stryker Brigade out of Fort Lewis, Washington.
Gann has contacts in Mosul, Iraq.
Together they crafted a deal to get the equipment from Bakersfield to the law enforcement forces near Mosul. [...]
Bakersfield gun belts, riot helmets headed for Iraq
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By JAMES BURGER, Bakersfield Californian
The Bakersfield Police Department was poised to toss a pile of old equipment in the dumpster.
Then training officer Jim Moore had an interesting idea.
Why not send it to Iraq?
The gun belts, baby-blue riot helmets and leather radio holders are out of date for Bakersfield police.
But they’d work just fine for fledgling police departments in Iraq.
So Moore called up a buddy.
Moore went to South High with Major Joe Gann of the Stryker Brigade out of Fort Lewis, Washington.
Gann has contacts in Mosul, Iraq.
Together they crafted a deal to get the equipment from Bakersfield to the law enforcement forces near Mosul. [...]
