Officials are working to standardize the uniforms and make them distinctive so insurgents impersonating police officers can’t easily copy them, he said. The uniforms will be tightly controlled, and every national policeman should have three by year’s end.
Another story the major markets probably won't be picking up.
While they're at it, they should issue now-inexpensive holographic ID cards. Something that when worn would be distinctive from 5-7 feet away. And while they *could* be faked, it would just be extra difficult to do so.
They might even discreetly put RFID chips in various places of their uniform, equipment and ID so if someone passed through an electronic checkpoint and all their RFID chips didn't match, or there were the wrong number of RFID chips...
This is not to say a policeman would know why he was suddenly taken aside for a quick and thorough ID and uniform check. Just pure, random luck I guess.