State Troopers in State Tartans

**Riverkilt** · 21st August 10, 03:18 PM

For sure unlikely - but how cool would it be if State Troopers wore kilts in their state tartan while on duty?

Would be cooler and more comfy in their squad cars. For sure would look distinctive.

A dream.

**turpin** · 21st August 10, 05:18 PM

Nevah hoppen, Ron. PLs, with all the time spent sitting, the pleats would be a fright, and a good trooper is always well-pressed and squared away.

**Riverkilt** · 21st August 10, 05:54 PM

Well, they could wear pleats to the front and sit on the apron....

**Woodsman** · 22nd August 10, 05:58 AM

I guess that would really make them the "fashion police".

**BobsYourUncle** · 22nd August 10, 06:01 AM

Originally Posted by Woodsman

I guess that would really make them the "fashion police".

This thread has already gone way wrong...

That is hilarious!

**vmac3205** · 22nd August 10, 03:13 PM

I'd love to see it, though.

**Frank McGrath** · 22nd August 10, 04:20 PM

Troopers carry weapons. This I know. Kilt cops carry distinctive beverages. This I know, too. The two don't mix. Good, Bad, or indifferent. Plus, kilts don't look good with stetsons.

**dutchy kilted** · 22nd August 10, 05:14 PM

The big problem would be that some truckers like to see if they can get close enough to cops on traffic stops to see if they can blow off their hats. Imagine what would happen if they were wearing kilts!

**EagleJCS** · 23rd August 10, 10:00 AM

Another issue is that troopers, on occasion, get into some pretty hairy hand-to-hand incidents, having to wrestle people to the ground in order to cuff them. That could get very awkward very quickly in a kilt. Also, depending on what a kilt-wearing trooper chose to wear - or not wear - under the kilt, it could give a combative person an additional opportunity to inflict personal bodily harm, or at least something else to grab.

It's a nice idea Ron, but I think the only real opportunity for kilt-wearing by state troopers would be for ceremonial occasions, and then probably only by a state trooper/piper or pipe band.

(Most states don't have the budget for that. For example, I was hired, as a civilian piper, to pipe at the Police Officer's Memorial Day observation last May at the Indiana State Police post across the river from me. I was given an honorarium, much lower than my standard fee* but it's all the post had in their budget. The Indiana State Police don't have the budget to field a pipe band or provide individual pipers for such things. I think they have a retired trooper to pipe for the State Police Academy graduations, but that's just a guess, and I don't know if/how that person is paid.)

* Since my brother is a trooper at that post, I would have played for free, but they insisted.