Nick

I know someone who had an Afghan OSM from the MDP otherwise the combination of 40 plus years service unless they were reserve forces just doesn't add up, nice group.

I am guessing Ministry of Defence Police ?

Many many discrepancies across the board I am afraid. It highlights just one of the many inconsistencies with the issue of medals for civilian and at times military service, which leaves many public servants whether civilian or military frustrated and undervalued, For example the prison service qualified for the Jubilee and Coronation medals. NCA and BF & IE did not. Of course many dismiss such medals as 'mehh' and not worth anything, but of course the same dissenters are the ones still sporting them on their medal bars regardless. No rhyme or reason to many decisions, many of which especially within the civilian world are made by senior civil servants within government who have little understanding of the departments they are in charge of.

PC (CID) is usually indicative of Metropolitan Police CID officers, as a work around I would guess for the fact that Detective is not a rank per se and couldn’t be used. Not sure when or if this has now stopped as it seems to have been mainly seen on older medals. Not personally seen it on senior ranks. But there wasn’t this modern obsession with detective grade in years gone by. Senior Officers now seem to like keeping the nomenclature of Detective throughout their service, even when they might not have done any ‘detective’ work for years. Many Detective Chief Superintendent's about, most of which returned to uniform duties to get promotion, and haven’t been working as a detective on detective branch for many years 🤷‍♂️

I have seen a couple of similar examples of bad fitting on that type of medal mounting (not just PLSGC), which were a lot older than this example. I thought they might that been damaged over time, but now I am not so sure.

Thanks for the heads up on this, its useful to know that 🤙

Is the one on the left an experimental Met armorial crest ? Photos are from 1969 there are others about in online photo libraries.

Thanks for explaining that I will reference that in a guidance topic very useful for members. However in this case it was not done out of ignorance.

Would you believe that as a response to this topic Triadoro has decided to report GMIC four times to his email provider over the last couple of days for sending him spam emails. All the emails in question being the notifications he signed up to and can switch off. Enough is enough I have had enough of your spiteful games, your account and all your alter egos, have been banned.

I do know the vast majority of members are supportive of GMIC and many have shown great support financially to ensure that we have a future. The volunteers who help me run this forum are also real stars and their work behind the scenes is very much appreciated by me. I was beating myself up over what happened to Rick Researches account and have tried several fixes which just haven't worked. The reality is the content is still there and if you search for specific articles it will come up. You just can't search using the name.

So this is still in the too difficult box. As for comments criticising actions taken, the reason why I take security seriously is evident by the spam attack I have had to battle in the last 24 hours. Easy for certain members to point fingers, when they do not have to manage the forum and all it entails.

Yes I am seeing if I can rebuild the member account and attribute the content to him again it may be too time consuming and not workable so watch this space.

Nothing that can be done about it I am afraid, the content is still there but the account has been corrupted.

Interesting that helmets were used as opposed to cocked hats as worn in the Metropolitan Police.

A few of you may have noticed a few changes that are affecting older dormant membership accounts. I am facing a few issues that dormant membership accounts are creating. First off too many dormant accounts are causing email bounce. This has caused major challenges with black listing and incorrectly marking the GMIC server as a potential spam address. Secondly UK GDRP causes issues around keeping personal identifiable data for indefinite periods. Members who clearly are not returning to the forum need to have all their identifiable data purged. Finally dormant accounts can cause potential security breaches from hijacked accounts which can also create a problem. I have identified members who have not actively logged into the forum for over 7 years. Their accounts have been changed to marked for deletion. This does not mean to say any content will be deleted, but their personal data will be soon deleted. However I am facing a technical issue with this as recently demonstrated by the late Rick Researches account. The software is designed to purge identifiable membership data and lock accounts whilst retaining content and mark content as attributed to an individual. Unfortunately this changed Ricks account to Guest Rick Research and I am not very happy about this. Until I have a work around I am not deleting old identifiable data as the software is not doing what I wanted it to do.