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Novato Police Department Celebrates 60 Years with New Shoulder Patch Design
The department will be retiring the current uniform patch, which has been worn since the early 1990s to make way for a more modern design. In 2018, the City of Novato refreshed their logo, implementing a new simplified look. The new patch design embraces this change which translates equally well to print, the internet, or embroidery.
Chief of Police Matt McCaffrey stated, “With our 60-year anniversary coming up, and the city changing its logo, we saw it as an opportunity to modernize the patch while at the same time holding onto a big part of the towns of history”.
Similar to the old patch, the center of the patch will be dominated by the image of the City Hall that sits across the street from the police department. The patch now incorporates the content “EST 1960” to reflect the year the department was established.
Beginning in January the public will begin to see the transition to the new patch, which hopefully will be completed by the end of February. This will be a collective change throughout the entire department, as there will no longer be differentiated colors separating the department’s administration from any other rank in the department.
Novato Police Department Celebrates 60 Years with New Shoulder Patch Design 
Novato Police Department Celebrates 60 Years with New Shoulder Patch Design
As a way of celebrating the 60-year anniversary of the Novato Police Department, to make our patch design more universally useable, and to align ourselves more closely with the other departments within the City of Novato, the Novato Police Department will change to a new patch in 2020.The department will be retiring the current uniform patch, which has been worn since the early 1990s to make way for a more modern design. In 2018, the City of Novato refreshed their logo, implementing a new simplified look. The new patch design embraces this change which translates equally well to print, the internet, or embroidery.
Chief of Police Matt McCaffrey stated, “With our 60-year anniversary coming up, and the city changing its logo, we saw it as an opportunity to modernize the patch while at the same time holding onto a big part of the towns of history”.
Similar to the old patch, the center of the patch will be dominated by the image of the City Hall that sits across the street from the police department. The patch now incorporates the content “EST 1960” to reflect the year the department was established.
Beginning in January the public will begin to see the transition to the new patch, which hopefully will be completed by the end of February. This will be a collective change throughout the entire department, as there will no longer be differentiated colors separating the department’s administration from any other rank in the department.
Address/Location
Novato Police, CA
909 Machin Ave
Novato, CA 94945
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 415-897-4361
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