Sig sauer

Sorry, my bad. My english isn't 100% perfect. I mean that I'm going to work in plain clothes, not in uniform anymore. And I'm looking for light and thin body armor to wear under a sweater or a t-shirt.

Also, if you can give some suggestions on good concealed holsters, baton holder etc. I prefer to wear them on the belt rather than on a vest or in pockets. I have heard about pancake holsters and inside pants holsters. Any suggestions?

SIXTO

Sure, I can help you... are you going to be working an "old clothes" assignment, or will you be wearing more of a business type clothing?

What kind of assignment will you be working?

Here in the states, we typically don't carry full much when working plain clothes, undercover assignments might not even carry a pistol... it just depends.

I liked to carry my P228 in a CompTac Infidel, along with a spare mag. If I needed them, I'd carry a set of cuffs in my back pocket, and thats about it. I typically had SWAT or other arrest teams ready to swoop in though if that was the goal of the day.

For the body armor, I never wear one working plain clothes, I just tossed on a raid vest if things were looking to go south... in my mind, a vest defeats the purpose of plain clothes.

I just got a ABA 2A, it does conceal well under regular clothing, but you can forget about it if you just are wearing T-shirt. I don't know of anything that will.

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chester1006

Maybe someone can help me out here, but I didn't think the soft vests (such as the OP was referring to) could protect against stabbing knife attacks. I know mine can't (Level IIIA).

I just looked into it, and I guess I just answered my own question.
Body Armor Levels

"Soft body armor is not designed to protect against rifle rounds or edged or pointed weapons." (In the green box, about 2/3 of the way down.)

VtCO

Buy some dual threat armor. Stab armor is flexible and made out of the same stuff as ballistics armor, just a tighter weave. But the weaving process typically makes it so that it cannot provide ballistic protection. But there are companies that have gotten around that and make a dual threat armor. Best stuff out there, but pricey. Usually rated at level III(ballistic)/II(stab).

Also in regards to rifle rounds, you need hard plating for that on all armor.