There’s a misconception that quietly circulates among new officers, security professionals, and civilians who’ve invested in body armor, and it goes something like this: if my vest stops a bullet, it’ll handle a knife. It’s a logical assumption on the surface. The armor is tough, the material is engineered, and the marketing tends to use […]

Nobody joins law enforcement planning to lose their career over a storage room. But it happens. More often than the profession likes to talk about, evidence room failures have ended the careers of officers, evidence custodians, and in some cases department leadership who had no direct involvement in what went wrong. The problem wasn’t always […]

For Military professionals: your unit’s chain of command, relevant ARs, and applicable regulations should guide your specific armory procedures and operational requirements. This article focuses on storage specifications and armory management considerations to inform equipment and infrastructure decisions. The best armory NCOs I’ve encountered share one characteristic that has nothing to do with rank or […]