He has sweated every summer and has had to wrap up extra warmly in the winter. Now new uniforms are ready for Geir Mikkelsen and the rest of Norway’s motorcycle police, as a change from the leather suits they have to wear today. The police made a scientific job of looking for an alternative uniform and their final choice was made on the basis of a project carried out by the Police Supply Service and SINTEF Health Research.
SINTEF carried out a survey of users’ experience of leather uniform cloth ing. The responses were used to draw up a set of specifications for the new uniform. SINTEF subsequently tested the two sets of clothing that reached the final round of tendering, partly in order to check how well they could keep warm bodies ventilated. The police aim to supply all their motor cycle drivers with the new uniforms within three years.