# Policeman's Hat

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/policemans-hat/153387>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 7, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/policemans-hat/153387 "2003-02-07T03:58:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![johncole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@johncole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johncole)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/policemans-hat/153387/21 "2003-02-09T20:35:59Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Ice Wolf \*  
> \*\*My vote’s in for [“bobby helmet”](http://www.foximas.com/russian/original-british-phone-booth.htm) (scroll down the page a bit.) \*\*

When you do scroll down the page, the item labelled “British Bobby helmet” is described (correctly) as a _police_ helmet.

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> The London Metropolitan Police have been wearing hard-shell police helmets like these since the 19th century

**jjimm** ROTFLMAO - do you remember Gerard Hoffnung’s advice to tourists? (e.g. have you tried the famous echo in the Reading Room of the British Museum)

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