NIJ-2009-1949 Personal Protective Equipment:
Tactical Officers' Full-Face Respirator

Avon Protection Systems will develop an improved, ergonomic full-face respirator, capable of serving as an air-purifying respirator (APR) employing an integral/detachable filter and as a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), which law enforcement officers and other criminal justice practitioners can use while performing routine and tactical tasks that may pose chemical, biological, or radiological hazards. This effort will provide a modernized full-face respirator that will be available to state and local law enforcement that will meet their operational requirements.
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