Pittsburgh Police Piper

[wvpiper]

Here's some raw video of the casket arrival of one of the slain Pittsburgh officers being piped into the church. The piper is seen at the end of the video.
Interestingly, he's also wearing his service belt with pistol, rounds, etc.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/...538/index.html

[The Barry]

You know a town is tough when the pipers are packing heat!

[JolyStNicholas]

The presence of all the other Officers should of offered him enough securtiy to do without his service belt. Made for a tacky appearence in my humble opinion.

[Colonel MacNeal]

The presence of all the other Officers should of offered him enough securtiy to do without his service belt. Made for a tacky appearence in my humble opinion.

Pittsburgh is a tough town - I don't question the sidearm at all.

[macwilkin]

In Chappell's Scottish Units of the World Wars there is a depiction of a Gordon piper with the 51st Highland Division in WWII wearing a sidearm whilst piping.

T.

[Friday]

The piper was on duty and probably require by departmental rules to be armed. IMHO it looked like a kilted police officer.

[Wompet]

The video wasn't working for me, but I have to echo Friday's remarks.
The pictures I've seen of Border Patrol's and Customs' honor guards have shown the pipers wearing their duty belts and weapons.

[Kiltedfirepiper]

to be "in uniform" requires EVERYTHING that constitues " part of the uniform".
honoring a fallen officer doesn't seem tacky to me...........

I'll leave it at that

KFP

[MacAngus]

Some police pipe bands wear the side arm as part of their band uniform. It's pretty prevalent here on the east coast.

[Friday]

I was just thinking, he may have required the sidearm to protect himself from all the kilt checks.