0 the special clothes and equipment that the police use when they are dealing with a large violent group of people:
If he is in riot gear, however, he is a prime target for a brick.
Up to 400 youths were involved in the violence and the police deployed a substantial number of officers in riot gear.
There were vans loaded with policemen wearing helmets, riot gear and so on.
Clusters of police, some in riot gear, were stationed at intervals along the road.
The police came down in their full armoury and riot gear.
The police then arrived with all their riot gear and said that the crowd had to be contained on the housing estate.
Forty policemen in riot gear stood there for an hour looking quite ridiculous, and were powerless to act.
The police had to make equally fine judgments as to precisely when and where to deploy police in riot gear.
