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Police Commissioner Gerry Howe has banned Portsmouth officers from wearing any kind of adornment on their uniforms, including memorial pins and pins that indicate the officers are members of the K-9 team, motorcycle unit, SWAT team, or a union. The last on the list runs counter to the decisions of local labor boards stemming from a conflict regarding union pins that began in October 2006. The commissioner has pledged to take the fight all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary.