英国的锡克教警察想要政府开发能防弹的头巾，这样他们就能担任携带武器的警察了，用不着去掉头巾。

   由于宗教信仰要求信徒始终带着头巾，所以锡克教警察免于佩戴安全头盔，但同时也意味着他们不能充当武警。英国锡克教警察协会副主席称，研究人员已经开发出能用于制造头巾的防弹材料，因此可以生产出以合成纤维为原料、能提供某种程度保护的防弹头巾。

   Sikh officers are exempt from a legal obligation to wear crash helmets because of their religion's requirement to wear a turban, but this means they cannot wear the protective headgear of firearms officers.

   Inspector Gian Singh Chahal, vice-chairman of the newly formed British Police Sikh Association, said the Home Office needs to make provisions for Sikhs to recognise their role in the police force, the Guardian reported.

   "Sikh officers have been prohibited from becoming firearms officers because our religion does not allow us to remove the turban," he was quoted as telling the journal Police Review.

   "There has been some research done into producing a ballistic material [for turbans].

   "We would like to follow any opportunity where we could manufacture a ballistic product, made out of a synthetic fibre, that would ensure a certain degree of protection, so Sikh police officers could take part in these roles."