SAK’s and others for Police Forces / Law Enforcement

[Farmer X]

  That would be a sweet logo to hunt down!

[Barry Rowland]

 

[EMZ]

Stadtpolizei Bern.

Nice!!

Here are my Swiss Police SAK's:
Hafenpolizei Basel-Landschaft
Stadtpolizei Wetzikon
Kantonspolizei Bern
Kantonspolizei Basel-Landschaft

[Barry Rowland]

 

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[ComboTool]

Nice!!

Here are my Swiss Police SAK's:
Hafenpolizei Basel-Landschaft
Stadtpolizei Wetzikon
Kantonspolizei Bern
Kantonspolizei Basel-Landschaft

Is the size of the knife proportional to that of the canton?

[EMZ]

Is the size of the knife proportional to that of the canton?

Seems it is inversely proportional...

[austin83]

I was fortunate enough to run into the actor who played MacGyver, Richard Dean Anderson, and he had a Victorinox 111mm Rescue Tool on his belt.  Comparing Swiss Army Knives with the real MacGyver is the one of the coolest moments of my life. 

[EMZ]

I was fortunate enough to run into the actor who played MacGyver, Richard Dean Anderson, and he had a Victorinox 111mm Rescue Tool on his belt.  Comparing Swiss Army Knives with the real MacGyver is the one of the coolest moments of my life.

As we all know (do we...?) Holywood sells movies and not documentairies. In movies anything will happen precisily so as the film director wants it to happen. You want to blow up a building with just handgrenade? No problem, the FX men will do the job. (I've been there...)
So if you see the real  MacGyver movie star -Richard Anderson in this case- having a Vic on him in private, that is really cool!

[Agamemnon]

 

A few of my “police oldies”:

1)   The knife (Adola) was a gift for 12.5 years of 'faithful service' (also applied to reserve police).
On March 8, 1948, the Beel cabinet decided to establish a reserve police force. On May 3, 1948, the Minister of the Interior, Dr. P.J. Witteman announced the creation of a reserve police force. The creation of a reserve police force was the result of three important developments:
• The Netherlands was occupied by the Germans for five years;
• Fear of political (communist) unrest;
• Fear of the war in Indonesia.
The establishment of a reserve police force was laid down in the National and Municipal Police Reserve Decree of August 2, 1948, Staatsblad I 350. When the new Police Act came into effect on July 4, 1957, the reserve police were discussed for the first time.
At the same time as the disappearance of the state police and the municipal police (April 1, 1994), and the arrival of regional police forces, the police reserve was transformed.

2)   The “tool” comes from the Police Museum in Rhenen.
The National Police Corps was established on November 8, 1945. The Corps was disbanded on April 1, 1994. A reorganization of the Dutch Police then took place in which the National Police Corps and the Municipal Police Forces were merged into several national regional forces.

3)   An 'M.M.M.' (mini unbranded multi) tool that I know nothing about.

4)   Buck – 318 Parallex Select Folding Knife
Knife dates from 2007 and is/was in use by D.S.I. (Special Interventions Service), I’m told.

[Barry Rowland]

    I've carried a few over the years.  I have a Swisstool RS on my duty belt that sees more use than anything else I've carried.  On it, I've used the belt cutter one time.  The rest of the time, the main blade for opening a snack or the ruler for measurements on commercial trucks.  I usually have some sort of one hand opening knife too, but it's easier to get at the Swisstool when I'm in the car.