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Dallas Police Department officers can now wear cowboy hats as part of their department uniform, a simple change with a big morale impact.
In this episode of The Brief: Wellness Edition, Emily Hitchings and Greg Friese explore how cowboy hats, facial hair and tattoos help humanize officers and give them another way to take pride in their work. Hitchings, a former police officer, explains that leadership doesn’t always need to be a major policy or department change. A small change, like cowboy hats, likely came from listening to officers about what they wanted and implementing a change to boost morale.
“It’s Texas! (Officers) should be wearing cowboy hats.”
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About The Brief: Wellness Edition
The Brief: Wellness Edition video series explores the wellness implications of current events for public safety professionals. Each episode brings a timely conversation that connects unfolding events to the day-to-day realities of first responders.
