Thin Blue Line badge gets the boot as Montreal police unveil new patch [Video]

Montreal police officers will no longer be able to wear the controversial Thin Blue Line patch on their uniforms, but the department has created a new symbol to honour law enforcement colleagues killed in the line of duty.

Police Chief Fady Dagher unveiled the changes during a closed-door meeting Tuesday where he discussed updates on the dress code for the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal, or SPVM.

“It was also important to remind police officers, through this modernized procedure, that their duty of impartiality in interventions must also be reflected in their clothing and physical appearance, that they must not display bias for a cause more than another,” the police department said in statement.

“The SPVM thus makes its uniform neutral, out of respect for all the populations it serves.”

The Thin Blue Line patch is usually a black-and-white Canadian flag with a blue line through the middle. While some police officers …