Palestine Police Badges

[Aberdeen Medals]

While sorting through some odds and ends in my miscellaneous inventory I came across the below attached Palestine Police badges, all of which appear to be white-metal variants of the force cap badge.

1). Top Badge: Die-struck white metal cap badge. Central band has 3 x double sided sprays of laurel leaves, with in centre central the letter 'P.P.' entwined. Reverse has 2 x copper lugs 'North' & 'South' , and makers marks 'Dowler, Birmingham' on 2 x lines

2). Bottom Right Badge: A well-polished die-struck white metal cap badge. Central band has only 1 x double sided spray of laurel leaves on top and below the legend 'Palestine Police', the centre being the letters 'P.P.' entwined - note the letters are only joined to the central band in 3 places. Reverse has replacement slide, but shows remains of 2 x copper lug mounts 'East' & 'West'. There are no makers marks.

3). Bottom Left Badge: A die-struck white metal cap badge. Central band has only 1 x double sided spray of laurel leaves on top and below the legend 'Palestine Police', in centre the letters 'P.P.' entwined - note the letters are joined to the central band in 6 places. Reverse has 2 x copper lugs 'East' & 'West'. There are no makers marks.

Questions:

a). Is the top badge a style that was only worn by gazetted officers, i.e. Inspectors and above?. Or, is it an earlier variant to the others ?

b). Are the bottom two badges the 'Standard' issue worn by Constables, Corporals and Sergeants? And, if so, are they possibly from different makers?

In anticipation.

Yours aye,
Mark

[Eddie Parks]

See my reply on the other thread. The top badge is a Sgts' arm badge