When it comes to police equipment, most of the first things that come to mind are a series of weapons such as police guns, batons, handcuffs, etc. Do you know that police hats, badges, uniforms, and shoes also belong to police equipment? Especially police shoes, they are really easy to overlook! Police leather shoes refer to footwear made with natural leather as the upper and leather or rubber, plastic, PU foam, PVC, etc. as the sole, and processed and formed through processes such as stitching, gluing, or injection molding.
The improved second-generation police single leather shoes have added a ring of reinforcing ribs on the upper and started using an inner raised bottom. However, the weight of the shoes has reached 1 kilogram, which is obviously a bit heavy for police officers who need to patrol and arrest suspects.
The summer mesh police leather shoes introduced later have added mesh that can cool police officers, and are also equipped with an inner raised bottom. However, the disadvantage is that the mesh can easily enter small stones, making it inconvenient to clean the leather shoes. Once upon a time, when police officers applied shoe polish to shoes, the shoe polish dirtied the socks through a mesh.
The new Type 99 police officer leather shoes have undergone significant changes compared to the old model. The soles are made of soft sole material, with a zigzag pattern in the front and back, which can increase slip resistance and comfort. It also features a removable insole with concave and convex surfaces and breathable holes. A blue circular cushion is also added to the back of the insole at the heel, and there is a yellow circular massage pad with many protrusions inside the shoe at the heel.
For military and police officers, the first factor in choosing leather shoes is durability, followed by good hygiene, and finally, ease of maintenance. Leather shoes have these advantages over cloth shoes and sports shoes.