FWIW, those police appear to be at Charles de Gaulle airport. The OMON are (or rather were) the rough Russian equivalent of a SWAT team. You want the text to b

FWIW, those police appear to be at Charles de Gaulle airport. The OMON are (or rather were) the rough Russian equivalent of a SWAT team. You want the text to be high visibility. One way is with a strong contrast between light and dark. Another way is dark on light. If the uniform is dark - which is typical of jackets - then either the letters need to be light, or there needs to be a box or other shape which is light, with dark letters inside. Here are police with dark jackets, light letters with "POLICE", and no rectangle: http://www.europe-israel.org/2016/09/intifada-en-belgique-une-patrouille-de-police-attaquee-au-couteau-a-molenbeek-par-un-marocain-clandestin/ http://www.europe-israel.org/2016/09/intifada-en-belgique-un... http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2016/06/20/une-cellule-terroriste-planifiait-un-attentat-contre-une-place-du-centre-de-bruxelles_4954094_3214.html http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2016/06/20/une-cellule-... They say "police" because they are in countries where France is a local language, and, quoting https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_(institution) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_(institution) : > Le terme « police » désigne de manière générale l'activité consistant à assurer la sécurité des personnes, des biens et maintenir l'ordre public en faisant appliquer la loi. They also include "Politie", again in light letters on dark. That's because they are Belgian police, and "politie" is what the Flemish population of Belgium uses. At https://www.dreamstime.com/editorial-photo-french-police-control-street-paris-april-april-france-one-most-populated-metropolitanareas-europe-image49874651 https://www.dreamstime.com/editorial-photo-french-police-con... you can see a mix of styles used in France, so that tailor isn't very consistent. Other police prefer a high-visibility jacket, which means they need either dark letters, or a block (or other shape) if they want light letters. Here are some examples with the British police: http://daafeet.com/?p=6956 http://daafeet.com/?p=6956 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9762516/Our-police-are-being-let-down-by-selfish-agitators.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9762516... and https://duckduckgo.com/?q=british+police&t=ffsb&iar=images&iax=1&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fprevious.presstv.ir%2Fphoto%2F20131115%2F334853_British-police-officer.jpg https://duckduckgo.com/?q=british+police&t=ffsb&iar=images&i... . And here are some German police, who don't use the English/French word "police" on their jackets but rather the German "polizei". Both of these cases use light letters on dark jacket with no rectangle: http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/01/08/harcelements-de-masse-a-cologne-18-des-31-suspects-sont-des-demandeurs-d-asile_1425109 http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/01/08/harcelements-de-... http://nyheteridag.se/polis-morklagger-asylsokandes-kriminalitet-vill-undvika-hogerextrem-debatt/ http://nyheteridag.se/polis-morklagger-asylsokandes-kriminal... Or in Sweden, with the Swedish word for police, "polis", is in white, on a blue rectangle on high viz yellow: http://www.somaliska.com/booliska-stockholm-oo-joojiyay-ugaarsiga-soo-galootiga/ http://www.somaliska.com/booliska-stockholm-oo-joojiyay-ugaa... and where the underlying jacket doesn't have any word at all http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18116027.ab http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18116027.ab . At the bottom of http://almunecar.se/leva-och-bo/bra%20att%20veta.html http://almunecar.se/leva-och-bo/bra%20att%20veta.html you can see three different uniforms for Spain. Neither the municipal police (http://almunecar.se/onewebmedia/LEV-5.JPG http://almunecar.se/onewebmedia/LEV-5.JPG ) nor the Civil Guard (http://almunecar.se/onewebmedia/Policia%20Guardia%20C.jpg http://almunecar.se/onewebmedia/Policia%20Guardia%20C.jpg ) have text on a rectangle, instead using the entire shirt yoke in a different color as the background. What you showed, therefore, is neither a universal nor anything like your attempted joke about the same tailor.