British Raj Rank badge of Indian Imperial College

[sbintayab]

Hello,

Can anyone inform me about the rank badges of Indian Imperial Police please?

Thanks

Shams

[peter monahan]

Shams

I'm answering off the top of my head here, so I haven't got all the details, but the Indian Imperial Police would have used a paramilitary rank structure, like most Imperial police forces, with Indian Constables and Head Constables and British officers. I believe they were Constable and Head Constable, not Corporal and Sergeant, and wore two chevrons and three chevrons respectively, like those worn by British NCOs.

Officers wore a single star, two stars, two stars and a crown and so on. The stars were silver, 5 pointed and textured. Sorry, don't know a better way to describe them than that. If you Google "Indian Police badges" you'll see modern examples but if you substitute a crown for the three Lions of Ashoka they look much the same as the IIP badges did.

Several of our members are police collectors and can probably give more complete answers but I hope this is some small help.

Peter