The NPA’s uniform regulations currently stipulate that female officers ... cooler than a regular shirt,” Inspector Tomonori Takahashi of the Saitama prefectural police’s equipment division ...

TOKYO: Polo shirts will be introduced as police officers’ uniform to counter the heat in the summer and skirts for female officers will be discontinued, the National Police Agency said.

According to the NPA, skirts used to be widely worn as many female police ... The polo shirt-type uniform will be introduced on a trial basis at four police stations of the Saitama Prefectural ...