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Great post Kilkenny, And when you take a closer look at #1 it doesn't look quite "right". But I do have to tip my hat (helmet?) to the props manager who went to such trouble to be that accurate. We can all think of some of the more egregious mistakes modern tv/film designers make when it comes to historical accuracy.
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Not the finest example of the patchmaker's art but at least Illinois State Police had a go. I seem to recall that The Met opened a gift shop a few years ago to sell Met-themed merchandise a la NYPD. Loads of stuff (cufflinks, desksets and the like) designed to appeal to the over-seventy-year-olds. Utterly clueless.
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Imagine the fun our great-great grandsons will have pouring over the finer points of wicking t-shirts and hi-viz fleeces circa 2014.
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This dates back to a very complicated time in the reorganisation of policing and local government in England and Wales. The West Riding Constabulary was the force for the West Riding of the County of York. When the county borough forces of Barnsley, Dewsbury, Doncaster, Huddersfield and Wakefield were subsumed into the West Riding force under the Police Act 1964 the new force was renamed West Yorkshire Constabulary. Of course there were other county boroughs within the West Riding that did not join the West Yorkshire force. Sheffield and Rotherham merged while Bradford and Leeds City forces remained independent until 1974. In 1974 local government was reorganised: the county boroughs and the West Riding were abolished and a new Metropolitan County of West Yorkshire created. West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police was formed by amalgamating the West Yorkshire Constabulary with the Leeds and Bradford city forces. The county boroughs of Doncaster and Barnsley were moved to a new Metropolitan County of South Yorkshire so those parts of the West Yorkshire Constabulary along with parts of the West Riding and Sheffield and Rotherham became South Yorkshire Police.
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Wanted British Colonial Cyprus Police Badge
NickLangley commented on Nick's blog entry in Chairman's Blog
It would be easier to recreate the badge as a vector image. The lion is generic British Army and the rest is straight from stock. A competent designer should be able to produce one in an hour so. -
I always have a bit of a soft spot for the RCMP. Back in the day when I first began collecting police insignia as a youngster I sent off a letter to the Mounties HQ. And by return they very generously sent a selection of beautiful full colour photos and a cap badge for my collection. In fact it was always fascinating to receive a letter from some American or Canadian city's police chief with one of their patches enclosed. At the time they seemed very glamorous and colourful when compared with the British forces - who, without exception, never replied!
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I think it's because of its size and geographic focus. CofL Police is the only one that possibly retains the "esprit de corps" that was part and parcel of the old borough and city forces. It's very difficult to imagine a constable getting nostalgic about Thames Valley or a senior officer, who has served for a couple of years in half a dozen different "police areas" being that bothered about his (or her) current service's history.
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Definitely not RUC - the symbolism is just too wrong. For example no crown and the design includes the three castles from Dublin's coat of arms and the the threee crowns of Munster. And the harp (sans crown) is very much a nationalist symbol. My bet is that Mr Costello was some other kind of chief inspector but definitely not police.
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My8trax. Don't worry about "Badges of Office" only going upto the end of the 1980s. For the past 40-odd years English and Welsh forces' insignia and uniforms have become increasingly standardized and of less and less interest to a potential collector. Now that the traditional helmet is an increasingly rare sight on the streets it is almost impossible to tell one force from another.