“Uniform changes are coming rather quickly,” Chell tells the bosses in the video. “No more beards in about a week. No open collars in about a week. We’re going back to weather restrictions on knit caps.”
“Basically, what I’m telling everybody in this room is we’re going back old school,” he says.” We’re going to bring back some traditions that we kind of lost in the past couple years.”
The NYPD has relaxed its facial hair and uniform rules over the years.
One longtime cop said he thinks the changes are needed.
“It’s absolutely ludicrous that you have an officer with pink hair and nails longer than their fingers,” the Manhattan cop said. “We’re a police department not a hip hop department. Let’s go back to being police officers.”