Testing the Reliability of Personal Security Equipment Used in Private Security

After 1989 and the change of regime in the then Czechoslovakia, after 1993 in the independent Slovak Republic, there was a boom of private security services. This resulted from allowing free business. Nowadays, private security services are provided by many private but also large international companies that have their businesses in Slovakia. It is necessary for private security personnel to be equipped with quality and reliable personal security equipment, which they use to ensure their own as well as the organization’s security. In the available sources, telescopic batons are primarily used for defensive purposes against unjust and unlawful actions of an attacker. There is only sketchy information about other uses of the telescopic batons, rather of a presentational nature. We found it interesting to focus on the resistance of telescopic batons in this study. First of all, it is related to personal defence, where personal security equipment has an irreplaceable place, and it also touches upon the broader issue of human security. The aim of the paper is to test and establish the reliability of the specified telescopic batons in terms of their resistance to impacts on specified materials.