Anthropometry of Law Enforcement Officers

Abstract

A measurement survey of 23 body dimensions critical to the design and sizing of protective equipment was made of approximately 3,000 male law enforcement officers. The anthropometric data were collected in 17 regions throughout the United States. Data on the key factors of height, weight, and age of an additional 10,000 officers were also obtained. The information from these two measurement surveys has been encoded for computer-processing. This report presents the results of standard anthropometric statistical treatments of the data. The information contained in this report and in the anthropometric data bank developed by the project may be used to improve the design and sizing of equipment for law enforcement populations. Matched sampling techniques assure the utility of this information for present and future law enforcement populations as well as for the civilian and military communities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 10, 1975
Accession Number
ADA017066

Entities

People

  • James I. Martin
  • Lewis L. Driver
  • P. A. Peters
  • Raymond Sabeh
  • Roger W. Hintze
  • Terry D. Lowe

Organizations

  • Navy Electronics Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Body Armor
  • California
  • Caucasians
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Information Science
  • Law Enforcement Officers
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Medical Personnel
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • Surveys
  • Symmetry

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control