PESHAWAR, Dec 5: The US Ambassador to Pakistan, Ryan C. Crocker, has handed over 2,650 bullet-proof helmets to Frontier Corps inspector-general Maj-Gen Mohammad Alam Khattak to help protect FC personnel during their missions in the border areas.

According to a press release issued by the public affairs office of the US embassy here on Tuesday, the helmets were part of the US government’s ongoing border security programme.

The US had already provided security equipment worth $20 million, besides $2.8 million for the construction of border outposts.

Most of the US funding for Frontier Corps was being used to procure vehicles, communi-cation equipment and surveillance equipment, said the handout.

In the next few months, the US embassy would deliver at least 150 vehicles, communications and surveillance equipment worth $1.3 million, including 420 bullet-proof vests.