Police Ties ????

[greeny]

Hey everybody, I have a question I've been curious about for awhile. I work in security/loss prevention/whatever the hell you want to call it, but basically I'm a security officer.
Part of my uniform is a tie, but it's a clip on. The reason they gave me for it being a clip on is that it is neccesary for safety (aggressor in an altercation could use it to strangle you if it were a conventional tie)

This logic would also apply to police officers. So....my question to those of you that wear ties is...........are most police uniform ties clip ons?

[CBPSDJohn]

For safety reasons as you stated, yes.

[bigcop97]

My ties are all clip ons.

[Creeker]

Before our ties were made optional, ours were all clip-ons.

I knew a guy who hated the clip-ons because his collars were too tight...before collar extenders were available. His wife was handy at sewing, so he took a regular black tie, tied it, then had the back of it cut and velcro sewed on... I guess he made the accomodating measurements for it to work out right anyhow... it looked great. Too great. Seems he used a wide tie to do it with and the Bosses knew it was not a crappy looking 4th generation used clip-on right away, and made him go home for the issued one.

[Northtechsan]

Our "Class A" uniform is a clip on tie. We only have to wear it in a for a formal event. But should we decide to wear it on the street its a clip on for safety reasons.

[Groundhog]

We have clip-ons and velcro fastened ties on our uniform allotment. They're only required when wearing the winter uniform with a L/S shirt, and even then only for parades or funerals. Turtlenecks or dickies are authorized with winter unis and most everybody wears them.