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By the way, back in the 1990’s (and before that) it was very uncommon to see “POLICE” emblazoned on the backs of uniform
jackets or shirts. It just wasn’t done back then. Nowadays its ubiquitous. Below: an emergency team effort in the garage to
straighten out a patrol vehicle bumper that may or may not have been involved in a tiny little with a tree. Damage was fixed, so
no paperwork was filed on what happened to the police car because as you can see, sarge, it’s just fine.

Here’s me modeling the polo shirt look, circa 2001 or so. I liked those shirts, except they had no pockets. But the pants by then
had cargo pockets to make up for it; so that was cool. You’ll see many more pictures of me, wearing all kinds of different uniforms
over the next couple dozen pages. Some were better than others.

For formal occasions - like for court appearances - we had the fancy class A shirts, but no longer in the light blue scheme with
contrasting darker pocket flap and epaulet colors; the new ones were all one color. It looked so sharp I wore one a lot on regular
old patrol, complete with the real metal badge instead of the white embroidered cloth patch version.

Back then, police officers were not allowed to have tattoos. Well, tats that were visible, anyway. We had one reserve officer - an
active duty navy man – who had a large tattoo on one of his calves. When he wore shorts on patrol during the summer, the Chief
made him cover it up with a flesh colored bandage sleeve, which was honestly not a big improvement. This was back in the 90’s.
Fast forward 20 years into the future and nobody was bothered by visible tattoos anymore; by then we had several officers with
large full-sleeve arm tattoos, and our latest Chief himself was sporting a large calf tat.

As our uniforms changed over the years, so did our shoulder patches and our badges. When we changed from the light blue
shirts to black, the shoulder patches went from multi-colored to black and white. Here are both patches, and two different badge
styles: