But now Cheshire Police have ditched the dated flat peaked cap and bowler cap worn by male and female offices for a unisex hard cap, reports the Macclesfield Express. The new cap - which will be ...

The flat caps, worn jauntily at an angle ... of a form of headgear recognizable as a badge belonging to their class, the familiar peaked cap" — as historian David Blackbourn put it — soon ...

The force said the flat, peaked caps would provide "an additional option" for response and support unit officers and would not replace existing headwear such as the traditional bobby's helmet.