Dawn raids and undercover operations are all in a day's work for the police. But these officers aren't chasing robbers, they're saving animals. By Rob Sharp.

There are two cops, a scientist, a cameraman, a journalist and a photographer. They rush into a shopping centre in an eastern suburb of Glasgow, the kind of place where cars on bricks sit at the roadside. It is the perfect lair for criminal masterminds, slow-moving merchandise, reptilian contraband skulking beneath the radar.

One of the cops enters the shop. He pulls himself up to his full height and moves towards the counter, ignoring the customers stopping to gawp. The scientist shuffles in alongside him, quiet and intense, pulling his brow tight and flashing his identification. The shopkeeper's forehead glistens with sweat.

The thin man cocks his head at a row of tanks, lit by fluorescent lights. "We're here about the tortoises," he says. The shopkeeper nods. "Of course," the shopkeeper says, already moving his hands beneath the desk. Everyone in the room freezes. If a fight breaks out, the floor could be blanketed in shells.

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Now I know for a fact that when the makers of Stealth Gear sat down to design and produce their Extreme clothing range they would have debated for ages making lists of every way they could envisage there excellent clothing being used in the field.  Bet you I just found a use for my Stealth Gear Extreme Fleece that they hadn’t thought of!

Now granted it’s hardly the type of headline you would be expecting to see however for the 72 hours from Monday the 21^st September that’s exactly what we had. It’s actually not that uncommon to find cetaceans in the Clyde. In June 2008 we were visited by a Pelagic species of Dolphin known as a Rissos Dolphin which spent a few days swimming around before making its way back out to sea.

First impressions are important and I wasn’t disappointed when I opened up my Stealth Gear Extreme Photographers Suit yesterday. Lets be honest, clothing like this for most of us is about a lot more than just “looking the part” (although I’ll come back to that later). It’s primary role is functionality and this set up seems to give you that in spades.

I’m not going to go into all the technical details as they are well documented on the site and make for interesting reading. Instead I’ll take you through some of my first thoughts of the suit.

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