Saturday, November 17, 2007

State Police Open House

Today we went to an open house at a new State Police Headquarters. This is me trying on a SWAT team vest that weighs 50 pounds.
"Bad Guys" look out. Here comes Officer Big Bad Mama.

Little Josie tried on a SWAT helmet. You could see "night vision" through the scope.


This is just some of the gear that the SWAT team uses. Tremendously accurate and powerful machinery. It was very very interesting.



This is a submersible camera that the the scuba unit uses to search for bodies in the water. As you can see Georgia is standing in front of it and is projected on the television set.





We all found this pretty cool as well. They are standing next to a pack and in the back is the suit.




We learned that they don't rescue but recover.






There was a ribbon ceremony to celebrate the opening. Here we are listening to the officers. As you can see we also met a K9 officer.







This was pretty cool for the girls. They got to hop into this $250,000 vehicle and play around for a little bit!








This is an armored Hummer that the SWAT team uses. Georgia and Josie are getting a hand getting down out of it. Surprisingly the officer said that this vehicle gets used quite a bit.










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