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.