prop problems!

For two separate scenes of our music video we needed some very specific costume and props, namely police riot gear. the gear which we need is mentioned in a previous post, with pictures. i went to a friend of mine who is in the police and said he would attempt to get me the equipment we needed or the closest to it that was available. he realised that all of the equipment he would take out would have the number on it registered to him when he took it out, and he wanted to check that we were okay to use the equipment for filming without breaking any of his job rules, so he spoke to the boss at professional standards department, and they told him that we would not be able to film this in a public place with professional equipment, especially if it was going onto the Internet, even for educational purposes. faced with this problem we all together cancelled the filming for Tuesday and started to think about how we were going to make shift a police uniform. Me and Harley tried to arrange make shifting a uniform out of common pieces of clothing, but we didn't think it would look good enough, and we wanted to meet a better standard. I told Mr Smith about the problem and possible hiring a costume from a costume hire shop, and he said he might be able to find a nightstick and a stab vest for us, which was a big relief. Earlier today Mr Smith told us he will get us the equipment asked for by tomorrow, which will be a big help. we intend to film the scenes from yesterday tomorrow in the same area as the subway scene. The scenes we need to film are: Jack running into the officer, the officer arresting/beating Jack, the officer beating another man (for the mind erase video).