My uncle was a police commander and some of these donations actually became onerous. The one I remember him mentioning were gas masks. As I remember the force

My uncle was a police commander and some of these donations actually became onerous. The one I remember him mentioning were gas masks. As I remember the force was required to have them and while they were given the masks through some grant there's some part of the mask (filter cartridge) had to be replaced every N months and actually cost the department a considerable sum