page_title: Uniform
section_title: Police
hierarchical_section_title: Uniform / Police
caption_attribution_description: "Yes officer. Whatever you say, officer."
context_page_description: A uniform is a type of clothing worn by members of an organization while participating in that organization's activity. Modern uniforms are most often worn by armed forces and paramilitary organizations such as police, emergency services, security guards, in some workplaces and schools and by inmates in prisons. In some countries, some other officials also wear uniforms in their duties; such is the case of the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service or the French prefects. For some organizations, such as police, it may be illegal for non members to wear the uniform.
context_section_description: Members of the police in every country have a uniform for identification as law-enforcement personnel or agents. They are distinguished from the public by the uniform the police wear during overt policing activity. Usually each country has its own different police uniform. 
  Contrast plainclothes law enforcement and undercover operations.
caption: A uniformed police officer in Sweden. The police often wear uniforms to distinguish themselves in public.
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