Ballistic vests donated to district attorney’s office

Published 12:01 am Tuesday, June 4, 2019

The Georgia Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) has donated four ballistic vests to the Conasauga Circuit District Attorney’s Office, according to the organization.

These vests, provided through the Georgia FOP’s “Protect the Protectors Program,” were presented to District Attorney Bert Poston by Carlton Stallings, FOP national trustee and a member of the ballistic vest committee for the Georgia FOP.

Investigators assigned to that office will use the vests.

“Operation Protect the Protector” is designed to donate ballistic vests to law enforcement agencies across Georgia, specifically to those agencies that have limited budgets.

“Officer safety is a very important issue to all of us in law enforcement, and the ballistic vest has been proven to save lives and reduce injuries,” Stallings said. “Every officer should wear a ballistic vest every day. The FOP is working to ensure that more officers within our state have this extra level of security.”

Stallings said being able to present these vests to officers that he has worked with over the years is special to him.

“In the world we live in now,” he said, “it is extremely important that all law enforcement officers wear protective vests, and the FOP is proud to assist in that effort.”

The Georgia FOP represents more than 4,000 law enforcement officers across the state and is part of the nation’s largest law enforcement organization with more than 348,000 members nationwide.

As of this delivery, the FOP has provided 919 vests to 157 agencies.