| List of Attire Rules for Police & Fire-brigade Officials |
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TUNIC || | Police Official |
Fire-brigade Official |
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Clothing-material |
Dark blue serge |
Same as described on the left |
| Making |
Collar |
Lapel-shape (small opening) Figure as per the illustration |
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| Shoulder-insignia |
Outer verge of the shoulder-strap is sewed into the seam at the shoulder part: the collar side secured with a golden button and at the portion close to the outer verge, a rising-sun insignia is affixed. Golden metallic rising-sun insignia is for 1st & 2nd class officials, & as for 3rd class officials, silver metallic rising-sun insignia is for inspectors and assistant-inspectors and silver cloth insignia for sergeants and constables. Figure & measure as per the illustration. |
Same as described on the left. However, the wordings "inspts." & "Asst.-inspts." shall be "Fire-brigade (hereunder abbreviated as "F.B.") "Inspts." "F.B. Engineers" & "F.B. Asst.-Inspts." "F.B. Asst.-Engineer and "Sergeants" & "Constables" shall be "F.B. Special Sergeants" & "F.B. Sergeants." |
| Front |
Four golden buttons with rising-sun insignia are affixed in a row. Two pockets on both sides, each having two lines of tuck and a flap and secured with a golden button. Figure & measure as per the illustration. |
Same as described on the left. |
| Rank-insignia |
In the case of 1st & 2nd class officials and inspectors & asst.-inspectors out of the 3rd class officials, a black background, both ends of which are embroidered with golden stripes & plain-woven golden stripes and a silver rising-sun insignia affixed at the centre, is sewed to the upper part of the right side upper pocket. For sgts. and constables, a mountain-shaped stripe made with yellow coloured cloth and a silver rising-sun insignia are affixed on the left arm. Figure and measure as per the illustration. |
Same as described on the left. However, the wordings "Inspts." and "Asst.-Inspts" shall be "F.B. Inspts." "F.B. Enginner" & "F.B. Asst.-Inspts." "F.B. Asst.-Engineers" and "Sergeants" and "Constables" shall be "F.B. Spl. Sgts." & "F.B. Sgts." The mountain-shaped stripe is green in colour. |
| Arm-insignia |
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On the upper part of the rank-insignia affixed on the left upper arm part, an arm-insignia with yellow background on which red-designs are ornamented is affixed. Figure and measure as per the illustration. |
| Sleeve-insignia |
Diagonal-threaded gold stripe, black stripe & golden rising-sun insignia are affixed. However in the case of sergeants, diagonal threaded silver stripe is affixed instead of the gold stripe. The rising-sun insignia is not affixed to asst.-inspts.' & sergeants' and diagonal threaded golden stripe and the rising-sun-insignia are not affixed to constables.' Figure & measure as per the illustration. |
Same as described on the left. However, the wording "sgts." shall be "F.B. Spl. sgts." & "Asst.-inspts." and "sgts." shall be "F.B. Asst.-inspts." "F.B. Asst.-Engineers" & "F.B. Spl. Sgts." and the "constables" shall be "F.B. Sgts." |
| Belt |
A belt is affixed on the back. Figure as per the illustration. |
Same as described on the left. |
| Trousers |
Clothing-material |
Same as the tunic. |
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| Making |
Ordinary long trousers. Pockets on both sides & right rear of the trousers. Figure as per the illustration. |
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Clothing-material |
Brown cloth. |
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| Making |
Collar |
Same as the tunic. |
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| Shoulder-insignia |
Same as the tunic. However, the buttons are of the similar colour as the clothing material. Sun-insignia is not affixed. |
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| Front |
Four buttons of the similar colour as the clothing-material are affixed in a row. Each one pocket on both sides with a flap attached and secured with a button. Figure as per the illustration. |
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| Sleeves |
Long sleeves with cuffs. Secured with buttons. |
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| Rank-insignia |
Same as the tunic. |
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| Mid-summer trousers |
Clothing-material |
Same as the mid-summer tunic. |
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| Making |
Same as the trousers. |
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| Special trousers |
Clothing-material |
Same as the tunic. |
,Same as described on the left. |
| Making |
Length is down to the ankle. Bottom parts are cut apart on the outside and four buttons each are affixed thereon. Pockets on both sides and right rear of the trousers. Figure as per the illustration. |
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| Servoce Cap |
Clothing-material |
Dark blue serge. |
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| Making |
Round shape with a black leather visor and chin-strap. Both ends of the chin-strap are secured with golden buttons with rising-sun insignia on both sides of the cap. In summer, the cap may be covered with brown cloth. Figure & measure as per the illustration. |
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| Badge |
A golden rising-sun insignia is embraced by gold braided cherry-blossoms. Background thereof is dark blue or black serge. Around the cap is attached a black coloured diagonal-striped braid and diagonal-threaded gold stripe. However, for Asst.-inspts., sergeants and constables, the diagonal-threaded gold stripe is not affixed. Figure & measure as per the illustration. |
Same as described on the left. However, the diagonalstriped braid is dark purple in colour. The wordings "Asst.-inspts.", "Sgts." & "Constables" shall be "F.B. Asst.-inspts." "F.B. Asst.-Engrs." "F.B. Spl. sgts." & " F.B. Sergeants." |
| Class "A" Great-coat |
Clothing-material |
Dark blue serge. |
Same as described on the left. |
| Making |
Lapel shape. Breast is double with six golden buttons with rising-sun insignia affixed in two rows. A 150 mm. cut is made vertically at the right hip-bone portion and pockets are affixed one each on both sides & with flaps. At the small part of the back is affixed an adverse U shaped belt, with three buttons each affixed on each of the side cloths and two buttons on the middle cloth. However, for sgts.' and constables', the side cloths are not affixed and the number of button for the middle cloth is only one. The lower end of the skirt is about 240 mm. above the boot-ankle and the rear of the skirt is divided in two and affixed with four black buttons. At the collar part, five black buttons are affixed for securing the hood and the hood is affixed with a nose-protector and three black buttons. A diagonal-threaded gold stripe and golden rising-sun insignia are affixed on the sleeves. However, insignia is not affixed to asst.-inspts.' and the diagonal-threaded gold stripe to sergeants' and constables'. Figure & measure as per the illustration. |
Same as described on the left. However, the wordings "Sergeants" and "Constables" shall be "F.B. Spl. sgts." and "F.B. Sgts.", and "Asst.-inspts." shall be "F.B. Asst.-Inspts." & "F.B. Asst.-Engineers" and an arm-insignia is affixed on the left upper arm. The arm-insignia is same as that regulated as of the tunic. |
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Clothing-material |
Dark blue serge or black water-proof cloth. |
Same as described on the left. |
| Making |
Long mantle shape and the length at discretion. The collar is of lapel shape and on the breast are affixed three black coloured concealed buttons. Hood and hood-securing buttons are same as in the case of Class "A" great-coat. Figure as per the illustration. |
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| Police baton |
Round truncheon made with hard wood. 10 stripes of slip-prevention grooves are engraved on the grip part and a leather-cord attached to the grip-end. Figure & measure as per the illustration. |
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| Police stick |
Round stick made with hard wood. Figure & measure as per the illustration. |
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