Florida Police Patches
Florida was the 27th state in the USA; it was admitted on March 3, 1845. - State Capital is Tallahassee.
Nickname is The Sunshine State
Florida's official flag was adopted in 1900
Florida's flag has a red cross of St. Andrew on a white field
- In the center is the state seal, which depicts
- a Native American (Seminole) woman scattering flowers
- the sun with many rays
- palm trees (the large one is a cabbage palm)
- a sailing steamboat
- the land and the water.