Foreign Police Badges - Help Please
 

Hi all,

A friend of mine collects police badges and has picked up these spares along the way. We were hoping someone might be able to identify them.

Depending on what they are he'll probably be moving them on although there are a couple he's planning on holding on to.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Michael

I think if he does a bit of research on the internet he would be able to ID the majority of these himself. Some are very obvious.

Dave.

Thanks Dave,

I know the first picture are all German ones but I was hoping someone might know the regions.

We'll get onto google.

Michael

Michael,

In your first photo six of them (five identical) are from Hamburg. The sixth actually says "Hamburg". Take out the obvious one's and then post pics. of those which you are stumped on. Just a suggestion. There is a website which deals with German Heraldry and the various states are easy to spot.

Dave.

The 6th picture (I hope I counted correctly, you did not provide any other means to identify them) has lower right two emblems of the Rijkspolitie (Netherlands, obsolete since 1993), one on a collar patch. The two shoulder straps with rank badge slip ons probably belong to them: Wachtmeester der Rijkspolitie.

The other ones, the star with the emblem of the soviet Union excepted, have the Ukrainian trident.

Brilliant, thanks Dave. Do you know what the difference is between the grey and the green badges (apart from the colour of course)?

Wmr-RHB, Netherlands and Ukrainian, thanks a lot.

Michael

Michael,

They are probably current and previous issues. I suspect that the named "Hamburg" may be an old issue whilst the others are current.

Dave.

Great, thanks

Photo 7, second up, in the centre, is Bosnian Serb army.

Thanks a lot. Is it police or army?

BGS Bahnpolizei= Railway Police...

Bahnpolizei is the term in Germany, Austria and the German-speaking parts of Switzerland for the Railway police.

Germany

Bahnpolizei was the name of the former Railway police of West Germany and fell under the jurisdiction of the Deutsche Bundesbahn federal railway company. Bahnpolizei officers investigated trespassing on rail property, assaults against passengers, terrorism threats targeting the railway, arson, tagging of graffiti on railroad rolling stock or buildings, signal vandalism, pickpocketing, ticket fraud, robbery and theft of personal belongings, baggage or freight. They also investigated train/vehicle collisions and hazardous materials releases.

In 1992 the railway security mission was transferred from the Bahnpolizei to the Bundesgrenzschutz Federal Border Guard Force. The BGS had already taken on these duties in 1990 for the territory of the former East Germany, replacing the former East German Transportpolizei. The Bundesgrenzschutz was renamed Bundespolizei (Federal Police) on July 1, 2005, and this force is currently responsible for security and passenger checks on the German railway system.

Maybe I should look closer before asking stupid questions.

Thanks a lot Voltigeur

Schwabien = Schwaben polizei=Swabia, South-Western area of Germany.

Swabia's borders are not clearly defined. However, today it is normally thought of as comprising the former Swabian Circle, or equivalently the former state of Württemberg (with the Prussian Hohenzollern Province), or the modern districts of Tübingen, Stuttgart, and the administrative region of Bavarian Swabia.

Jo

It's an army patch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army...publika_Srpska