Best Of Show
Voted Best of Show at POLICE magazine's TREXPO West, one month into its first year on the market.
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Don't Shoot Me
Meet The Founder
Twenty-Two Years A Cop.
Twenty-Two Years A Cop.
Thirteen On SWAT.
Two Years Solving One Problem.
Sgt. Michael Lessman, Ret. built the DSM Safety Banner because nothing on the market gave a non-uniformed officer 360-degree identification he could deploy with one hand. He holds the patent that proves no one else did either.
US Patent 8,191,748 B2Seventeen Years On The Record
TREXPO West 2009, Best Of ShowCygnus Innovation Award, IACP 2011
22 Years In Law Enforcement13 On SWAT1999 Decorated
The Man Behind It
Twenty-two years in law enforcement across SWAT, Patrol and Gang Enforcement, thirteen of them on SWAT, and decorated for his role in a 1999 hostage rescue.
An instructor in defensive tactics and officer survival, Mike spent several years in personal and executive protection before his law enforcement career, and served in the United States Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve from 1981 to 1987.
He designed the banner the way an operator designs equipment: for the hand that has to use it, in the second it has to work, by someone who had already spent two decades finding out what fails.
SWATPatrolGang Enforcement
Defensive Tactics InstructorOfficer Survival Instructor
Executive ProtectionUSMC / USMCR 1981–1987
Decorated, 1999 Hostage Rescue
Don’t
Shoot
Me
Founder · Sgt. Michael Lessman, Ret.Est. 2008
Service RecordSparks, NV
Sgt. Michael Lessman
Retired · Founder, DSM Safety Products
Law Enforcement20+ Years
SWAT11+ Years
AssignmentsSWAT · Patrol · Gang
InstructorDefensive Tactics
InstructorOfficer Survival
MilitaryUSMC / USMCR 1981–87
CommendationHostage Rescue, 1999
PatentUS 8,191,748 B2
Designed the banner he could not buy
22Years In Law Enforcement
13Years On SWAT
17Years On The Record
Granted Not PendingActive Through 2030360° Identification
The Patent, In Plain English
United States Patent
US 8,191,748 B2
GrantedActive Through 2030
1Hand
2 SecTo Deploy
360°Identified
One hand. Two seconds. Identified from every angle. That is what the patent covers, and no competitor holds an equivalent on a product they actually ship.
It protects the mechanism that takes the banner from a closed pouch on your belt to a full 360-degree identification sash across your torso, using one hand, without breaking your grip on a weapon or a subject. Not the fabric. Not the lettering. The deploy.
The high-visibility yellow-green is not a styling choice either. It was selected on visibility science, the same reasoning behind every piece of high-visibility safety apparel on a roadway. Other colors are available where an agency requires them.
Multiple Federal Agencies
CAGE 74SS3UEI MMYGTVRG8258
Every Order Vetted
2009 Best Of Show2011 Cygnus Award4 Recognitions
Judged By The People Who Carry It
POLICE Magazine
Featured in the May 2009 edition of POLICE magazine following the TREXPO West win.
Source link pendingOfficer.com Review
Reviewed by Officer.com, which called it a great idea that "solves some potential friendly fire / mistaken identity problems."
Read the review →Cygnus Innovation Award
Cygnus Law Enforcement Innovation Award, presented at the IACP Conference in Chicago.
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Bought By Multiple Federal Agencies
A registered federal supplier, paid by multiple federal agencies. Which agencies is not something we publish.
UEIMMYGTVRG8258
CAGE Code74SS3
NAICS315210
Our registration is public. Search the UEI or CAGE code on USAspending.gov or SAM.gov.
Don’tShootMe
That Is The Whole Reason It Exists
A non-uniformed officer needs a way to say that to an arriving unit before anyone has time to say anything at all. Everything else on this page is downstream of that one sentence.
Built By An Operator. Vetted To You.
Seventeen years on the record, one granted patent, and a verification step on every single order.