Police sunglasses are Italian designer eyewear with a very specific personality: bold, urban, a little rebellious, and priced well below the luxury houses. If you're wondering whether the brand is "real" designer eyewear — yes, it is, and it has been since 1983. This guide covers the model families we stock in the UAE (New Crossroads, Horizon, Champ), picks for men and women, how to confirm a pair is original, and how prescription lenses work on them — all from our authentic Police sunglasses range.
Is Police a Good Sunglasses Brand?
Brand background
Police launched in Italy in 1983 under De Rigo, one of Italy's major eyewear groups, which still owns and produces the brand today. The name was a deliberate nod to the mirrored "cop shades" look of the era, and the design identity hasn't softened since: strong metalwork, assertive shapes, high-profile advertising campaigns fronted by footballers and film stars over the decades, and a fan base that skews urban and masculine without excluding anyone. De Rigo's ownership matters more than it sounds: the group designs and produces in-house rather than licensing the name out, which keeps quality consistent across the range in a way fashion-label eyewear often isn't.
Where it sits vs luxury houses
Honestly positioned: Police is an accessible designer brand — real Italian design heritage and solid build, at a tier below Prada or Tom Ford. In UAE search demand, the most-looked-for sunglasses names are Ray-Ban, Oakley and Prada; Police earns its place as the value-conscious designer pick with more attitude than any of them. Both sun and optical lines live in our Police eyewear range.
Police Sunglasses Models in Stock
New Crossroads
The core of the current range. The Police SPLQ92 New Crossroads leads the family, with the SPLR78 New Crossroads 7, SPLR74 and SPLR79 running variations on the same confident metal-and-attitude formula — the frames to start with if you want the signature Police look. Within the family, the differences are in rim weight and lens tint rather than silhouette, so choose by colourway and let the shape do its one job: presence.
Horizon
The Police SPLP35 Horizon 12 is the cleaner, more open design in the range — the pick when you want the brand's edge in a slightly quieter register.
Champ
The Police SPLQ83 Champ 14 is the sporty one — built for movement, weekends and the gym car park rather than the boardroom.
Other styles
The SPL996E and SPLU76 round out the range — check each product page for shape, size and colourway, since both carry the same build quality in different silhouettes.
Police Sunglasses for Men
Men are the brand's main audience, and the strongest sellers are the bold squares and aviator-leaning metal shapes with strong bridge lines — the SPLQ92 for the full statement, the SPLQ83 for sport. A broad face carries these frames particularly well; they're designed with presence in mind, and unlike the luxury houses, Police prices let you own two — a metal statement pair and a sport pair — for the cost of one designer frame elsewhere. Browse all Police sunglasses for men, noting that several frames in the range are genuinely unisex.
Police Sunglasses for Women
The women's edit takes the same design DNA — metal detailing, confident lines — into larger lenses and lighter colourways. If you like the attitude of a masculine brand worn on your own terms, this is one of the more interesting accessible-designer ranges to raid: see Police sunglasses for women.
How to Know Your Police Sunglasses Are Original
Three checks. First, the inner temple: original Police frames carry the SPL model code plus the size figures (lens width, bridge, temple length in millimetres) cleanly engraved or printed. Second, the branding: logo work on the lens and temples is crisp, never sticker-like or off-centre. Third — and the only check that really settles it — buy from an authorised retailer. Marketplaces mix genuine and fake stock in the same listings; a retailer accountable for its supply chain can't. Everything OptiVision sells is authentic stock, full stop. One more tell worth knowing: fake Police frames cheat on weight — genuine metal builds have a substance in the hand that copies, built to a price, never match.
Fit, Lenses and UAE Use
Use the temple code to size against a pair that already fits you, erring wider for broader faces. For UAE sun, the dark grey and brown lenses across the range handle hard light well; specific lens specs are on each product page. The metal-heavy builds deserve the standard Gulf warning — never leave them on a dashboard, where summer cabin heat punishes both finish and lens coatings — and a fresh-water rinse after beach days keeps the hardware bright. Prescription sun lenses are available on most frames — our team confirms the fit for your prescription before the order is processed. And if you like the brand indoors too, Police optical frames take single vision, progressive, blue light filter, photochromic or reading lenses, with single vision lenses currently 50% off.
Where to Buy Police Sunglasses in the UAE
OptiVision — an authorized retailer since 1980 — stocks original Police sunglasses with delivery across Dubai and the UAE. The brand's whole appeal is designer attitude without the luxury-house price; current pricing is on each product page. Shop Police sunglasses in the UAE
Decoding a Police Model Name
Police naming is more informative than it looks once you know the pattern. The SPL prefix marks a sunglass (optical frames carry different prefixes), the letter-number sequence identifies the release generation — SPLR and SPLU frames are more recent issues than SPLP — and the family name after the code (New Crossroads, Horizon, Champ) tells you the design language before you've seen the frame. The size figures follow on the temple in the standard lens-bridge-temple millimetre format, so comparing a Police frame against any pair you already own takes seconds. None of this is trivia: reading the code correctly is also your first authenticity check, since counterfeits routinely pair a real family name with a code that never existed.
Frequently asked questions
Is Police a good sunglasses brand?
Yes. Police is an Italian designer eyewear brand founded in 1983, known for bold styling at a more accessible price than luxury houses.
Where are Police sunglasses made?
Police is an Italian brand owned by De Rigo; check each product page for production details.
How do I know if Police sunglasses are original?
Check the SPL model code and size on the temple, logo quality and packaging, and buy from an authorised retailer.
Are Police sunglasses good for men?
Men are the brand's main audience, with bold aviator and square shapes; many frames are unisex.
Can Police sunglasses take prescription lenses?
Most Police frames can take prescription sun lenses; our team confirms the fit for each model.
