What is the most odd policy at your agency?

Ours is Nov 1-March 31 for long sleeves. April and October can go either way. The rest of the year is short sleeves.

It’s fucking stupid and I’ve yet to have anyone give a sensible justification for it. It’s usually something along lines of we’re supposed to be uniform, but then we have 2 months when either is ok. On top of that we have guys who are bike certified who can wear a bike uniform basically whenever they feel like it (provided there are at least 2 working and they actually are going to spend some time riding), guys on the tactical team wearing TDU’s all the time (even though if they do get a callout while on duty they wear a different uniform from their TDU’s and have to change anyway.).

It also seems like almost every specialty unit wears whatever the hell they feel like, even when working in a uniformed assignment. A couple of them typically work wearing jeans, a t-shirt/sweatshirt/whatever, a duty belt, and an outer carrier with “SHERIFF” plastered on the back and a generic star on the front. The outer carriers don’t even all match. Some have gold lettering, some have silver, and some have white...not to mention different styles depending on when exactly it was issued.

There is virtually nothing “uniform” about our uniforms, but we can’t decide on our own when the temperature is appropriate for short or long sleeves (except in April and October.)

/r/AskLE Thread Parent