Personalised Police Cufflinks for Officers and Teams

Marking a Career in Policing

Police officers spend much of their working lives on other people's worst days, and the milestones in their own careers can pass with little ceremony. A passing-out parade is over in an afternoon. A promotion is often announced by email. A retirement might be marked with a few drinks after a late shift. Personalised police cufflinks give families and colleagues a way to make those moments last, with a design that belongs entirely to the officer wearing them.

They're practical, too. Officers attend court, formal dinners, award ceremonies and funerals in smart dress, often with double-cuffed shirts, and a pair carrying a collar number or station name quietly shows where their loyalties lie.

Individual Gifts from Family and Friends

Most individual orders come from people close to the officer. Parents choose a pair for a passing-out parade, with the collar number and the date. Partners order them for a promotion to sergeant or inspector. Grown-up children commission a pair for a parent's retirement, perhaps with the two years that bracket a career, such as "1996 – 2026".

For a single pair the price is simple: £40 with shipping included. The same £40 per pair applies to two, three or four pairs, so a family ordering pairs for two officers pays £80 in total. Every pair is printed in Cornwall from your full-resolution original and arrives gift boxed, ready to hand over on the day.

Some families order a pair each for a parent and grown-up child who both served, bringing two careers together in one gift. Others choose a pair to mark a much-loved officer's funeral, worn by relatives or colleagues on the day as a quiet tribute.

Team, Station and Unit Orders

Police work is teamwork, and many orders come from groups. A response team might mark the retirement of a sergeant by ordering pairs for everyone on the shift, each with their own collar number. A station closing after decades might order pairs showing the building for everyone who served there. A specialist unit might order its team artwork for every member, or a force event organiser might order a batch for award winners at a long service evening.

Group orders are where the pricing becomes especially good value. From five pairs in total, every pair costs £15, with one £5 shipping charge for the order:

• Five pairs for a small team: £75 plus the £5 shipping charge comes to £80.
• Ten pairs for a shift, each with its own collar number: £150 plus the £5 shipping charge comes to £155.
• Twenty pairs for a station's closing night: £300 plus the £5 shipping charge comes to £305.
• Fifty pairs for a force awards or long service event: £750 plus the £5 shipping charge comes to £755.

Designs can be mixed however you like. Ten officers with ten different collar numbers is ten designs, one pair each, and it still counts as ten pairs at £15. There are no further tiers above five pairs, so the organiser can work out each person's share in seconds.

Collar Numbers, Dates and Unit Artwork

Collar numbers are among the most popular designs on police cufflinks, and for good reason. They're unique to the officer, they print crisply in a bold typeface, and they mean something instantly to anyone who has worn the uniform. Other strong ideas include:

• Joining and retirement years, for a career told in two numbers.
• The station or division name, set in simple lettering.
• A photo of the station, especially one that has since closed.
• Unit or team artwork, such as a dog section or roads policing design the team owns or has permission to use.
• Initials with a date, for a clean, understated look at a promotion.

Each pair carries one image on both cufflinks, so combine the details you want into a single design. If the collar number and the retirement year belong together, place them together in one image before uploading.

Official Crests Need Permission

Force crests, badges and insignia are official marks, and forces have rules about how they are used. If you'd like an official force crest on your cufflinks, you'll need permission from the force before ordering, and the same applies to national police emblems. Unit artwork should be something the team owns or has been cleared to use. Artwork that can't be reproduced lawfully may be declined, and we have no affiliation with any police force. Many families and teams find that collar numbers, dates and station photos are more personal anyway, and they need no one's permission but your own.

Getting a Sharp Print on a Small Square

The cufflink face is small, so clarity matters more than detail. Numbers and names should be large, bold and high-contrast, such as white on navy or black on white. For photographs, crop tightly so the subject fills most of the square. Old printed photos from a passing-out day should be scanned at a high resolution rather than photographed on a table, which tends to add glare.

The live preview shows your design on both cufflinks, and you can drag and zoom until it sits exactly where you want it. We print from the full-resolution original you upload, so the better the file you start with, the better the finished pair.

Organising a Group Order

For a team or station order, one person should take charge. Collect each officer's collar number or chosen design, confirm the spellings, and gather any permission for official artwork before you start uploading. Add every design to one basket, check each in the preview, and pay once. That keeps shipping to a single £5 charge and means every pair arrives together, gift boxed, ready to be laid out at the leaving do or awards night.

If officers are chipping in individually, a quick message on the team group chat with the total and each person's share, £15 plus a slice of the £5 shipping, usually settles things within an afternoon. Keep a note of which collar number belongs to which box, too, because the pairs look alike at a glance and nobody wants to open a colleague's number at the leaving do.