Shorewood Hills Police Department

OUR PATCH

Our shoulder patch, in service since 1995, is divided into four quadrants.  

Each represents an aspect of our Village and Department.  

• The Oak leaf represents the wooded character of our glacier-formed topography.   
• The sailboat symbolizes our northern border, the shore of Lake Mendota.   
• The American flag shows our respect for the laws that we must uphold, and the Constitution we must defend.  1927 is the year the Village was incorporated, by combining the early 1920s developments of Shorewood and College Hills.
• The depiction of Blackhawk, a Native American Chief of the Sauk (Sac) tribe, recognizes that his people, and other tribes as well, were the early occupants of the land in and around our Village.

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