Dallas Police adds pink to blue uniforms for cancer awareness

Dallas Police adds pink to blue uniforms for cancer awareness

October is national Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the Dallas Police Department (DPD) is making it known that cops care about cancer too.

The Black Police Association of Greater Dallas in conjunction with DPD and the Dallas Independent School District Police joined forces to launch the Proud of the Pink campaign, a 31-day event to express the care and concern cops have for victims and survivors of cancer. DPD Chief David O. Brown has approved officers to don pink epaulets for the entire month of October.

Color-coded epaulets are worn on the shoulders of various police uniforms and represent the officers’ assignment. For example, patrol officers wear green epaulets and traffic officers wear red epaulets. All have the option to switch over to pink to show solidarity for victims and survivors as several officers have been affected by the deadly disease and are willing to do what it takes to bring awareness and raise funds for further research.

In 2015, an estimated 1,658,370 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States and 589,430 people will die from the disease. About 1 in 8, or 12 percent of the women in the US will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetime and more than 40,000 will die from it each year.

For current information on DPD visit www.dallaspolice.net or www.dpdbeat.com.

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