Name/Title
Sussex Police Enquiry Officer's pullover c2013Entry/Object ID
2435Description
Blue wool close knit pullover, with "V" neck and blue cotton patches on the elbows and shoulders. Each shoulder has blue cotton epaulettes secured with velcro patches and at the front blue cotton tabs to attach a personal radio microphone to. On the top of the left sleeve is a small blue cotton pocket with a velcro secured flap, in which to carry pens. On the left breast is a circular embroidered badge of a star topped with a Queen's crown marked "Sussex Police" around a coat of arms centre. Marked on a label "Wooly Pully" and "Registered Trade Mark of T.W. Kempton (C.C) Ltd" along with contact details and another size label marked "UK 44 EUR 54".Use
For a Sussex Police Enquiry Officer to wear.Context
Pullovers were not only issued to police officers in Sussex Police, but also uniformed civilian staff, including those in police station enquiry offices in the 2000s. At one stage they were given the title of "Police Neighbourhood Support Officers" and were issued with similar pullovers to the one pictured. However these had bell shaped badges, like those (item 744) originally attached to police officer's pullovers, with the exception that instead of "Police" at the bottom, they had the wording "Police Neighbourhood Support Officer".
Later in the 2000s, enquiry officers were re graded and given the title "Police Enquiry Officer". At this time they were issued with new pullovers, like the one pictured, with an entirely new circular Sussex Police coat of arms badge with no additional wording. These badges were also applied to plain fleece jackets also issued to enquiry officers, but they did not appear on any uniform issued to police officers. Pullovers and fleeces with this badge may have been issued to other uniformed civilian staff, but they were definitely still being used by enquiry officers until at least 2013.