VOPO Collar Tresse Question

[John F.]

Did the VOPO NCO's wear collar tresse on their tunics? I thought they did not. The reason I asked is because I am considering buying a VOPO tunic and it has tresse arounf the collar. Maybe this is a Grzntrpn tunic some one converted.

John

[SCHUPO]

John,

Barracked police NCOs (Kasernierten Einheiten des MdI) could wear collar tresse. This would include Kompanien der Transportpolizei but not regular TRAPO NCOs. Regular police NCOs who were not stationed in barracks did not wear collar tresse. If the green Volkspolizei tunic you mention has dark green collar tabs it should not have collar tresse. If the tunic has light green collar tabs it could have collar tresse.

I hope this is helpful.

[John F.]

Hi Schupo,

Thanks for the reply . The tunic does have the light green collar tabs, so it must be a barracks police.

Best,
John

[uscob]

Need some more Uniforms?

[Ralph P]

Hey Nico...sure, I will take the one on the right... Only kidding...

Is there by chance a story to go with the photo? Thanks for posting a very interesting photo of all those uniforms.

Need some more Uniforms?

[Thälmannpionier]

looks like an looted Depot of the VP. We have a similar looking NVA Depot just 20mls away. For 20eur you can load your Truck up to the roof with Winter Hats and used Uniforms etc.
But all the nice items are long gone like Visors / helmets and so on.