M.O.D Security Cap Badge

[Martin Hughes]

Hello everyone,

I recently acquired a "M.O.D Security" cap badge and I'm hoping to gather more information about it. I've been curious about its origins and significance. Could anyone provide insights or direct me to resources where I can learn more?

From what I understand, this cap badge might be connected to the forerunner of the MOD Guard Service. However, I haven't been able to find much information about the badge or the organization it represents. I've also been attempting to find a picture of the cap badge, but my search has yielded no results.

I'm wondering if this badge is considered rare due to the lack of available information and images. If anyone has any details, pictures, or even personal experiences related to the "M.O.D Security" cap badge, I would greatly appreciate it if you could share them.

Thanks Martin

[sailorbear]

Hi Martin. If you are talking about the white metal, cap badge with Queen's crown and ER, with M.O.D Security in a circle, I wore one on a blue peaked cap with a blue uniform with white metal ER buttons. It was worn when I was serving in the Defence Research Agency Guard Force at DRA Haslar (formerly the Admiralty Research Establishment - ARE Haslar) in Gosport. Previous to this, we wore a white metal crown on a midnight blue beret. The DRA Guard force was created when the ARE, was amalgamated with other government defence research organisations to become the Defence Research Agency, which was an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence. we were designated as Civilian Security Officer and held Non Industrial Civil Servant Status at MOD Administration Assistant grade. A previous organisation existed, known as UK MOD Industrial Patrolmen, they wore grey uniforms and peaked caps, with blue shirts and navy blue pullovers, and wore a gold crown cap badge. later some wore MOD Security white metal shoulder titles, they were designated as Industrial Civil Servants and had Labourer status. In 1994,(I think), the DRA Guard Force, along with all other MOD security guarding organisations, industrial and non industrial were amalgamated into a new force, the MOD Guard Service, that would hold status as Non Industrial Civil Servants and would be trained by the MOD Police and Services Police at the MOD training school at Wethersfield, Essex and would be one of a number of Defence Security Guarding forces including the Northern Ireland Security Guard Service, the Gibraltar Defence Guard Service, Germany Guard Service and Security Force Police Cyprus (formerly Army Depot Police). Phil2M has an example in his album of MOD security related cap badges, I think they are fairly rare, apart from the one I have, that I was issued with and wore, I have so far, never seen one for sale?

Hope this helps

Regards
Tony