College Police Drafting Compass Patch — Order This Pine Cone Design
Design S1740A at a glance
A custom-cut patch with a gold merrowed edge, built from just two colors: dark green and gold. A drafting compass stands over a pine cone at the center, with the college police name, a motto line and a founding line set around it. That two-color restraint gives it the look of a school crest rather than a municipal shoulder patch.
Custom-cut outlineGold merrowed borderDrafting compassPine coneMotto line2 thread colors
About this drafting compass and pine cone design
A drafting compass is an academic symbol — measurement, precision, learning — and setting it over a pine cone roots it in the campus landscape. For a college police department, that pairing says the agency belongs to the institution, not just the city around it. Keeping the palette to two colors means it can match school colors exactly and still stitch crisply at small sizes.
Order it as shown or adapt it: change the pine cone to your school's mascot or emblem, set dark green and gold to your institution's colors, or reword the motto. This page shows a design concept we manufacture to order — your stitch-ready proof arrives 6–12 hours after you order, and nothing is produced until you approve it.
College police compass patch quick facts
- Embroidered college police patches cost $3.00–$20.00 each depending on quantity, with a 10-patch minimum.
- Rush production takes 7–10 days and is available on every custom patch.
- Two-color patches like this stitch crisply even at 2.5" for caps and polo chests.
- Campus departments often match thread to their school's official colors from a swatch or style guide.
- Bike and community-policing units on campus often order an iron-on run for polos.
- Owl Badges is a US-based badge and patch manufacturer in Simi Valley, California, in business since 1999.
Customize this college police patch: backing, size, and thread options
- Backing: sew-on for patrol uniforms, iron-on for polos and caps, hook-side velcro for bike-unit jackets
- Sizes: 2"–12" — 3.5"–4" for sleeves; 2.5" for polo chests
- Colorways: dark green and gold as shown, or your institution's colors matched from a swatch
- Border: gold merrowed (shown), or green merrow
- Thread: metallic gold for the compass and border
- Artwork: the pine cone redraws as your mascot, crest or campus landmark at no art charge
Who orders this design
College and community-college police departments, campus public safety offices and university security teams order this patch for patrol uniforms, polos and bike-unit gear. Schools with green-and-gold colors adopt it almost as-is. Orders often combine sew-on uniform patches with iron-on versions for polos.
Custom college police patch pricing — embroidered
| Quantity | Price per patch |
|---|---|
| 10–19 | $20.00 |
| 20–29 | $14.00 |
| 30–49 | $11.00 |
| 50–74 | $6.50 |
| 75–99 | $6.00 |
| 100–249 | $5.50 |
| 250–499 | $3.00 |
Rush production in 7–10 days is available on all custom patches. Design your changes in the markup tool above, or get this patch quoted exactly as shown.
What your quote covers
- Your exact spec — quantity, size, backing, and colorway, priced to the piece
- A free digital mockup within 4 hours, before you commit to anything
- Rush production in 7–10 days whenever you need it
- No setup, digitizing, or art fees — the table price is the whole price
How ordering this patch works
Request a quote
Send this design (marked up or as-is) with your quantity. Quotes are answered 24/7 within 4 hours.
Approve your proof
Your stitch-ready proof arrives 6–12 hours after ordering. Nothing is produced until you approve it.
We verify & produce
Law-enforcement orders are verified with your agency before production — standard practice since 1999.
Delivery confirmed
We confirm your shipping address by phone, then email tracking the day your patches ship.
🏛 Bidding for your department or agency? We answer bids, RFQs and purchase-order quotes — see how agency bids and RFQs work, or tick “This quote is for a bid” in the quote form.
College police drafting compass patch questions
Can the colors match our school colors?
Yes. Send your color references and we match thread from our full chart; the proof shows the result.
Can the pine cone become our mascot?
Yes. A mascot, crest or campus building can replace the pine cone, redrawn at no art charge.
Can we change the motto?
Yes. Both the motto and the founding line accept new wording, and the mockup shows them set in place.
Does a two-color patch look too plain?
No. Restraint is what makes it read as an official crest, and you can still add a third color in the markup tool to compare.
What size works on a polo chest?
About 2.5 to 3 inches. We may condense the motto at that size and show both options on the proof.
Looking at other campus and police designs?
This page covers one academic campus emblem. The police patch designs from drafting-compass campus emblems to city patrol shields show every shape we stitch. For polo-chest sizing, backings and pricing, the patch guide that sizes a two-color compass emblem for polos and sleeves covers it.
Notes
Drop a 📍 pin on the patch, then type what you want changed there.