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Stab Vests Must Provide Spike Protection Spike protection cannot be guaranteed with stab vests or any other body armour. Shanks, spikes, ice picks, sharpened screw drivers, spiked clubs and strong hypodermic needles can indeed penetrate them if they are not offering specific, and more importantly CERTIFIED protection from such threat. Interestingly, the need for spike protection was identified by prison and corrections officers, who were at serious risk from injury from spiked weapons. It was due to those operational risks and threats faced by the officers, that in the mid-1980s the California Department of Corrections issued an urgent requirement for all stab resistant body armour to be tested against a commercial ice pick. The test method attempted to simulate the dynamics and force used by an attacker using a spike, intending to cause maximum harm or death. Growing Risk From Spike, Shanks and Double-Edged Knives However, society has changed, and some will argue not for the better.