by CollectinSteve Sun Aug 09, 2015 6:25 pm
Because they think more bling is better than less.
The hats are not too hard to find if you're not fussy about size. I might have a spare or two. I think I might have a spare of the Schleswig-Holstein Polizei variant which has a single button in front. I'll give a looksie and see what I have.
BTW, this type of hat had two different styles of badging. The first type was a metal "bullseye" from the 1950s through sometime around the late 1970s or very early 1980s. The second type used the same sunburst shield that was used on the service caps (Schirmmützen). I'm not sure when the transition happened, but I did find a picture from 1982 and it was the sunburst type. However, I do have a picture of a BGS guy post 1976 wearing the hat with the bullseye, so for 1979 it might still be correct.
Steve