Method for Designing Clothing and Equipment for Law Enforcement, and the Method for Homologating Such Clothing and Equipment

Method for designing clothing or equipment for protecting the body for law enforcement officers, characterised in that it comprises the following steps:

• provide a dummy with a set of cinematic and/or load sensors,
• position an impact application device in such a way that the latter can apply on at least one predetermined target zone of the dummy impacts according to a determined reproducible cinematic,
• apply said impacts on the target zone of dummy that is not provided with protective clothing or equipment, and take the measurements provided by the sensor(s) located in the region of said target zones,
• mount a protective clothing or equipment on the dummy in such a way that it covers the target zone,
• apply said impacts on the target zone of the dummy provided with the protective clothing or equipment, and take the measurements provided by said sensor(s),
• deduct from the measurements at least one value of energy absorbed and/or attenuation of the impact force by said protective clothing or equipment, and
• if said value(s) are higher than threshold values, tag the clothing or equipment as acceptable in the sense of said thresholds,
• otherwise, make structural modifications to said protective clothing or equipment in order to improve said values of energy absorbed and/or attenuation of the impact force.