I lived and worked in Dover for many years and as a "police" collector was given one of these by a former colleague who was a Dovorian born and bred. Whilst nothing to do with the police he thought I might like it. He said it had been in his family for as long as he could remember. I too was able to eventually identify it for what it was by paying a visit to the local library and searching the back copies of the "Dover Express" for the year 1915. A nice little badge, which, as you rightly say, is often wrongly identified by the so called experts.
Dave.
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