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Old 09-01-18, 10:48 AM
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Can you help me with the attached badge? I brought it awhile ago and it was described as a
"PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER BAOR" It is made of white metal with copper lugs.
Have you ever seen one like this before? I have never heard of a PUBLIC SAFTEY OFFICER BAOR before but I did spend several years in BAOR and I never came across one, not saying there was ever one but...
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Jerry,

Public safety officers were effectively policemen, usually on secondment from, UK forces. I've never seen this badge before. The one usually associated with them is a KC star with GVIR centre on a "domed" background. The back is invariably marked "Gaunt".

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The term Public Safety Officer seems to be mostly associated with the Control Commission Germany in the immediate postwar period, there being a large number of files on them listed on the National Archives online catalogue. At that time though any badges would have been KC with a GVIR cypher

There is one reference on the catalogue under Public Safety Officer to a 1951 file headed - Special Police Corps: reserve of ex Public Safety Officers for emergencies. This leads to further files on the Special Police Corps which run up to the mid 1950s with one dated 1962 with the title Special Police Corps in Berlin: pay and allowances of Inspector-General

These might suggest a possible research route as Google also turns up some likely leads and supporting information.

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Thanks for your replies Dave & Jon. I did buy this along with a British Frontier Service badge and some G.S.U. items.
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