Baseball Caps - Professional Use

Some law enforcement agencies also use a baseball cap as part of their uniforms. Used mostly with the utility uniform and coveralls, the baseball cap usually has a logo on the front to denote command affiliation. Also, caps of a particular unit are worn to denote a specific function of a person or particular job.

In Slovenia, policemen on motorcycles wear caps as a part of their uniform when they remove their helmet. Many armed police units around the world, notably SWAT in the United States and Metropolitan Police Specialist Firearms Command in Great Britain, often wear caps to shield their eyes from the sun where a full helmet and face mask would be excessive.

Fitted caps, suited to a particular head size, lack an adjuster. The cap is normally sewn in six sections, and may be topped with a matching fabric-covered button on the crown. Metal grommets or fabric eyelets are often sewn or attached near the top of each of the six sections of fabric to provide ventilation.

In some cases, the rear sections of the crown are made of net-like mesh material for extra ventilation. The bill is typically stiffened by a sewn in piece of paperboard. Caps are made of all types of material and shaped in various styles for different purposes.

Major league baseball players wear classic-style caps made of wool or polyester) with their team's simple logo and colors; the logo is usually embroidered into the fabric. Caps used by players may sometimes have sunglasses attached to the peak that can be flipped down when the player must look into the sky, but kept flipped up at other times.