Duty shirts, tactical trousers, caps, epaulettes, agency badges and identification pockets, manufactured in our own factory. We specify against the authority that licenses the post, and we keep the design clearly distinguishable from official dress, because that is a legal line rather than a styling preference.
A five-star lobby and a night shift on an oil terminal are not the same job, and they should not be the same garment. Cut, cloth and insignia change by post. Here is the full roster we manufacture for licensed operators.
The everyday duty set. Long or short sleeve shirt, tactical trouser, belt, cap and embroidered badge, specified against the authority that licenses the post rather than against a generic template.
Rank that reads across a lobby without anyone reading a name badge. Epaulettes, contrast piping and rank tape, marked as agency rank and deliberately not as anything resembling a state rank structure.
Cut on a separate block rather than graded down from the male one, with modest length and full sleeve options and a hijab-compatible collar as standard. Badge and identification geometry stays identical to the male spec.
Smart blazer and trouser configuration for premium retail. Discreet identification pocket, softer badge finish and no harsh insignia, because the environment does the intimidating and the officer does not have to.
Lobby presence in a tailored suit with concealed duty pockets and long coat options, colour-matched to the property brand while staying clearly distinguishable from official dress.
High-visibility and ripstop combination for site posts. Class requirements here are driven by reflective surface area, which we cover in detail on the construction workwear page.
Flame-retardant treated cloth and anti-static specification for hydrocarbon zones, plus the site-specific detailing that a plant access regime tends to ask for at the gate.
High-visibility tees, polos and accent vests with bold legible marking. Built for short-cycle deployments where the order is placed late and the event date does not move.
Reinforced shirts cut to work over body armour, concealed radio loops and tactical trousers. Manufactured to the operator specification rather than to ours, because CIT specs are usually already written.
Business suits cut for a protection detail. Clean lines, concealed equipment pockets and no visible duty signage at all, which is the entire point of the garment.
The Security Industry Regulatory Agency governs private security licensing in Dubai. The Private Security Business Department, a unit under Abu Dhabi Police reporting into the Ministry of Interior, covers Abu Dhabi and operates across Sharjah and the Northern Emirates. Same trade, separate administrative structures. So a supplier advertising a uniform as SIRA compliant across all seven emirates is describing something that does not exist.
One design language, with the jurisdiction-sensitive details specified separately. Your officers still look like one agency, but the badge, insignia and identification detail on a Dubai post are drawn against Dubai and the Abu Dhabi post is drawn against Abu Dhabi.
A private security uniform has to be clearly distinguishable from police and military dress. That is a legal distinction, not a matter of taste, and it is the underlying reason colour codes and insignia rules exist at all. A design that flirts with looking official is not a stronger uniform. It is a liability, and it sits on your officer rather than on whoever drew it.
Not adjacent to it. The temptation is always to move a shade closer because it looks more authoritative. That is precisely the move that creates the problem, and it is invisible on a screen and obvious in a car park.
Shoulder and chest markings carry your name and your mark. Rank marking reads as agency rank, deliberately not as anything resembling a state rank structure, which is the detail most templates get lazy about.
The agency name, or the word security, has to be legible at the distance a member of the public first sees the officer. If it only reads at conversation distance, it is decoration rather than identification.
Sized to the card, positioned where an inspecting officer expects to find it, and closed with a fastening rated for daily use. This is the most commonly wrong detail on a garment made by a general tailor.
Worth being blunt about who carries this risk. A uniform that could be mistaken for official dress does not embarrass the supplier who made it. It creates a problem for the officer standing in it and for the operator whose licence is attached to the contract. We would rather argue about a shade at quotation stage than have that conversation later.
Every component made under one roof, which is the practical difference between a security uniform manufacturer and a trading desk. Order the full set per officer or mix by post. The clip-on tie is not a convenience item, it removes a ligature from a guard who may have to physically intervene.
Heavy reads as durable, which is why most quotes lead with it. On an outdoor perimeter post in summer that is a heat-load decision dressed up as a durability decision. Weight, weave and colour together set the solar load an officer carries for twelve hours, so we split the specification by post rather than by rank and keep the colour family constant.
| Cloth | Weight | Composition | Best for | Wash cycles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy ripstop Most ordered | 235 gsm | 65 poly, 35 cotton | Standard duty, indoor and client-facing posts | 200 plus |
| Light ripstop | 190 gsm | 65 poly, 35 cotton | Outdoor perimeter and summer posts, same colour family | 180 plus |
| Tactical twill | 220 gsm | 60 cotton, 40 poly | Mall and hospitality, where structure is the job | 180 plus |
| Tropical wool blend | 195 gsm | 55 wool, 45 poly | Supervisor and close protection suiting | 120 plus, dry clean |
| Performance stretch | 210 gsm | 88 poly, 12 elastane | Cash in transit and high-movement posts | 160 plus |
| Hi-vis polyester EN ISO 20471 | 160 gsm | 100 polyester | Site, roadside and event posts | 150 plus |
A male block cut down fails in three predictable places: the shoulder slope, the sleeve pitch, and the chest badge position, which lands wrong and stays wrong however the shirt is pressed. That last one is not cosmetic. Badge placement is one of the things an inspector actually looks at.
Drafted separately through shoulder, bust and waist with a sleeve head set for a different arm pitch, so the chest badge sits where the specification says it sits. Modest length and full sleeve options and a hijab-compatible collar are on the standard range at the standard price.
Graded through chest and neck with a deeper armhole and a back yoke that allows a full reach. Shirts are cut with vest allowance where the post requires body armour, because a shirt that fits beautifully without a vest fits badly with one.
A mixed roster needs coverage options that do not read as a different uniform, and a security uniform supplier that treats them as extras has not understood the brief. Everything below is a cut option on the standard range, from the same stored colour reference, with badge and identification geometry untouched.
The reason these sit on the standard price list rather than as a surcharge is practical, not sentimental. The moment a coverage option costs more, it becomes a visible distinction between officers on the same patrol, and a uniform that distinguishes between its own wearers has stopped doing the one job it exists to do.
A security guard uniform is judged on the fourth order, not the first. Artwork re-created from a supplied image each time drifts, and eighteen months later a new officer stands next to an experienced one in visibly different insignia. We digitise once and hold the file.
Chest, shoulder and jacket back, in metallic and tonal threads. Digitised once from your original artwork and stored against your account with the thread references.
Agency rank marking for supervisors, shift commanders and operations leads. Designed to read as agency rank at a glance and deliberately not to resemble a state structure.
Heat-applied or embroidered name tape, plus the identification pocket sized to the licence card with a closure rated for the number of times it opens in a shift.
Applied to EN ISO 20471 on shoulder, chest, sleeve, back and trouser positions. Reducing the marked area to suit a design can change the class, so we flag it rather than quietly doing it.
Each stage is signed off in writing before the next begins. No bulk production starts without your approval on the sample sheet, because a badge in the wrong place across four hundred shirts is not a problem anyone wants to discover at issue-out.
Roster, posts, and which authority licenses each one. Fixed-price quote inside 24 hours with the framework named on it.
Construction sheet, cloth swatches, badge mockups, epaulette spec and reflective layout, issued for sign-off.
One physical sample per role with badge, name tape and identification pocket in place. Revisions are free until approved.
Our tailors size every officer at your facility, recorded against badge number so a replacement two years later needs no re-measure.
Cut, sew, embroider and apply reflectives, then piece-level inspection against the approved spec sheet.
Hanger-tagged per officer against badge number, with the full batch documentation pack attached.
Every protected environment sets a different brief. The lobby judges appearance, the perimeter judges heat, the plant judges the cloth and the event judges the lead time.
Published so a procurement lead can budget before making a call. Working ranges for typical specifications. Cloth, badge work and quantity move the final number, and volume tiers move it further.
Shirt, trouser, cap and embroidered badge. Light or heavy ripstop depending on whether the post is indoor or perimeter.
Adds epaulettes, rank tape and contrast piping. Tropical wool blend option at the upper end for client-facing supervisors.
Hi-vis polyester with reflective applied to EN ISO 20471. Class depends on marked area, so the layout is agreed before quotation.
FR-treated cloth with anti-static specification for hydrocarbon zones, plus any site-specific detailing the access regime requires.
Bespoke, cut for a protection detail with concealed equipment pockets and no visible duty signage anywhere on the garment.
On-site measurement above 50 pieces, badge digitising held on your account, and stored records so a top-up needs no re-measure.
They were the first supplier to ask which emirate each contract sat in before quoting. We had been running one spec across both and nobody had ever flagged it. The split cost us nothing extra.
The ID pocket on our old shirts was a guess and the flap failed inside two months. They sized it to the actual card and used a proper closure. Small thing, and it stopped a recurring complaint.
Turnover in this trade is what it is. Being able to place a ten-piece order and get the same badge and the same shade as the batch from two years ago is the whole reason we moved.
Guarding is a regulated trade in this country, and the uniform is part of what is regulated. That makes a security uniform a compliance item rather than a clothing purchase, and it means the two questions that decide the specification are almost never the two questions that get asked on a quote.
The Security Industry Regulatory Agency governs private security licensing in Dubai. The Private Security Business Department, a unit that sits under Abu Dhabi Police and reports into the Ministry of Interior, covers Abu Dhabi and operates across Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain. Both exist to regulate the same trade, but they are separate administrative structures with separate requirements.
So a supplier advertising a uniform as SIRA compliant across all seven emirates is describing something that does not exist. If your operator holds contracts in more than one emirate, the correct answer is not one uniform, it is one design language with the badge, insignia and identification details specified per jurisdiction, so that a guard moving from a Dubai mall to an Abu Dhabi tower is not wearing a uniform that was approved somewhere else. Any guard uniform supplier that cannot tell you which authority a given spec was drawn against is guessing, and the person who carries that guess through an inspection is your operations manager.
The second constraint is one nobody puts on a quote. A private security uniform must be clearly distinguishable from police and military dress. That is a legal distinction rather than a stylistic one, and it is the real reason colour codes and insignia rules exist in the first place. It is also why rank marking on a private uniform has to read as agency rank rather than as anything resembling a state rank structure.
In practice it means three things at the design stage. Colour has to sit clearly away from the police palette rather than near it. Insignia and shoulder markings have to be unmistakably agency insignia, carrying your name and your mark. And the word security, or the agency name, has to be legible at the distance a member of the public would first see the officer. A design that flirts with looking official is not a stronger uniform, it is a liability that sits on your officer rather than on the designer who drew it.
Most quotes lead with a heavy ripstop because heavy reads as durable. On a static post in an air-conditioned lobby that is a reasonable choice. On an outdoor perimeter post in summer it is a heat-load decision disguised as a durability decision, and the guard is standing in it for twelve hours. Weight, weave and colour together determine how much solar load the officer carries, and a dark, dense cloth is the worst combination of the three.
The workable answer is to split the specification by post rather than by rank. Indoor and client-facing posts get the structured cloth, because appearance is the job there. Outdoor and perimeter posts get a lighter construction with better air movement, in the same colour family so the team still reads as one team from the outside. Where the deployment involves roadside or site work, high-visibility requirements enter the picture and the specification moves again, which we cover in more depth on our construction workwear page because the class rules there are driven by reflective surface area.
A female security uniform cut down from a male block fails in three predictable places: the shoulder slope, the sleeve pitch and the position of the chest badge, which lands wrong and stays wrong however the shirt is pressed. The badge point matters more than it sounds, because badge placement is one of the things an inspector actually looks at, and a placement that was correct on the pattern it was drawn for is not correct once the pattern changes.
We hold a separate female block, with modest-length and full-sleeve options and a collar cut to work with a hijab, while keeping badge position, identification pocket and any reflective layout identical to the male specification. That last part is the point. The fit changes, the compliance geometry does not, and a mixed patrol still reads as a single uniformed team from across a car park.
Every licensed officer carries a licence card, and the uniform has to display or hold it. It is the single most commonly wrong thing we see on garments made by a general tailor rather than a security uniform manufacturer: a pocket sized by eye, positioned by habit, or fastened with something that fails after a month of the card going in and out twice a shift. Size it to the card, put it where the inspecting officer expects to find it, and use a closure rated for daily use rather than for occasional use.
Rank has to read across a lobby without anyone reading a name badge, which is what epaulettes, contrast piping and rank tape are for. The failure mode is not the first order, it is the fourth. An agency badge re-created from a supplied image each time will drift, and eighteen months later a new officer stands next to an old one in visibly different insignia. We digitise the badge once, hold the file and the thread references against your account, and match every subsequent batch to the stored reference rather than to a fresh interpretation of your logo.
Six questions. Which authority is this specification drawn against, SIRA or PSBD. How are you keeping the design clearly distinguishable from police and military dress. Is the identification pocket sized to the actual licence card. Do you hold a separate female block or are you grading the male one down. Is the badge artwork stored against our account. And what is the top-up minimum once the specification exists, because guarding has high turnover and you will be ordering ones and twos for the life of the contract. A manufacturer that owns its factory answers all six on the first call.
Ready styles carrying your badge start at 25 pieces per design. Fully tailored uniforms start at 50 pieces. Once your specification is on file, top-ups start at 10 pieces, which is the number that matters in a trade with this much turnover. Samples are ready within 48 hours of sign-off, standard production is 12 to 18 working days from sample approval, and urgent pre-deployment runs compress to 7 to 10 days. On-site measurement is included above 50 pieces, and garments arrive hanger-tagged per officer against badge number so issue-out at the guardroom takes minutes rather than a morning. We cover all seven emirates plus Al Ain.
The compliance, procurement and operations questions licensed operators actually ask before awarding a uniform contract.
