Beckley Police Department gets new uniforms at no cost to the public

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Beckley Police Department is going back in time. More accurately, Beckley PD’s uniforms are going back in time to the era before the 1950s.

The department is switching from the brown uniforms that were adopted in the 1950s to the navy blue the department had before.

Now before you start to worry about taxpayer dollars, this change was prepared for in more ways than one, Chief Lonnie Christian said.

“Each year, the department is provided with a uniform budget that covers all the officers’ uniform needs,” he said. “When the date of transition was set, the department did something extremely simple. We purchased new navy uniforms and utilized the old surplus brown and tan uniforms we already had in supply for the officer’s needs during the budget cycle.

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