Patch work: Havre police get new uniform insignias

Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown

The old Havre Police Department patch is seen to the left. To the right, the new patch features a redesigned emblem and fixes the misspelled Latin motto.

For Havre police officers, the side of their uniforms now match the sides of their cars.

The seal on the Havre Police Department's patch will fix some spelling errors and change the creature to make it "a little more coppish, " as Police Chief Kirk Fitch put it, to match the emblem used elsewhere.

The patch has been, for about 20 years, a reference to the seal of Le Havre, France, which was...