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Article: Charleston State Trooper Wilbert Wilks Inducted Into IACP/DuPont(TM) Kevlar Survivors' Club(R); Wilks Recognized for Having the Foresight to Wear a Protective Vest.
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- November 15, 2004
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)/DuPont(TM) Kevlar Survivors' Club(R), an organization dedicated to reducing death and disability among police officers by encouraging the use of personal body armor, has inducted Charleston (S.C.) Trooper Wilbert C. Wilks, II into its membership. Wilks was recognized yesterday during a ceremony held in conjunction with the IACP's 111th Annual Conference in Los Angeles.
"Since 1987, more than 2,850 law enforcement officers have survived life threatening injuries because they were protected by their body armor," said Commissioner Gwen Boniface, Ontario provincial police ...