11.   Police patrolled in bullet proof vests and armored vehicles, backed up by paramilitary troops known as Rangers with automatic rifles and armored personnel carriers.

12.   Since that fatality, border guards have been asked whether they want to wear bullet proof vests.

13.   Some of the bikers had bullet proof vests, standard equipment during a feud, police said.

14.   Thailand is still suffering from the effects of the Asian economic crisis, and up until now bullet proof vests have been too expensive.

15.   Thousands of police in bullet proof vests and paramilitary Rangers in armored personnel carriers patrol the troubled streets.

16.   Police wearing special helmets and bullet proof vests sealed off the district.