Tartan

- Primary Color is saffron representing traditional Irish kilts and the orange hue representing Orange County, CA

- The two thick black bars represent the men and women who lost their lives in the line of duty.  The two bars contain 36 black threads each, for a total of seventy-two, the number of officers who died on 09.11.2001

- The dark blue line between the two black bars is there to represent the "thin blue line" which is colloquial term for police officers. It means that Law Enforcement officers is all that stand between citizens and criminals

- The one gold and two silver stripes represent the badges officers wear

- The spot where the black stripes cross the gold and silver stripes represents the mourning bands the officers wear over their badges when a brother/sister officer dies in the line of duty

- The green stripe is to honor Emerald Societies and Irish Americans

The Scottish Register of Tartans

Registration Number 12955