SOME INFO ON UK HP INSIGNIA


INTERESTING FACTS


1829            FORMATION OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE

1864/65       INTRODUCTION OF COMBINED HELMET AND PLATE IN METROPOLITAN POLICE

1889            SMALL BOROUGH FORCES WERE AMALGAMATED INTO COUNTY FORCES

1901            QUEEN VICTORIA DIED

1902-5         CROWN CHANGED ON HELMET PLATES TO KC (TUDOR CROWN)

1936            POLICE BADGES WERE CHROMED FOR THE FIRST TIME

1952            KING GEORGE VI  DIED QUEEN ELIZABETH II CROWNED

1953/55       CROWN CHANGED ON HELMET PLATES TO QC (EDWARD CROWN)

1965-69       REDUCTION IN NUMBER OF FORCES FROM 120 TO 47

1974            INTRODUCTION OF COLOURED ENAMEL INTO BADGES

1980            METROPOLITAN POLICE INTRODUCED BLUE RING HELMET PLATE


Victoria Crown in use till 1902

Kings Crown     in use till 1952 (Also known as the Tudor Crown)

Queens Crown  in use 1953/5 to today (Also known as the St Edward's Crown)

FORCE MOTTOES


Prior to standardization of badges and helmet plates, some did not have the name of a City or Borough on them. They only had a coat of arms and a motto with or without a crown.

Bellow is a list of the ones I know of. Please note there may be more I do not know of in which case I would appreciate you passing on any information you have to include here and help others.

Aberdeen City

Abingdon Borough

Accrington Borough

Ashton-Under-Lyne Borough

Bacup Borough

Barnsley Borough

Barrow-In-Furness Borough

Bath City

Birmingham City

Blackburn Borough

Blackpool Borough

Bolton Borough

Boston Borough

Bradford City

Bristol Docks

Caernarvonshire

Caithnesshire

Canterburry

Carlisle

Clitheroe Borough

Cornwall County

Coventry City

Derby Borough

Devon & Exeter

Devon & Cornwall

Devonport Borough

Dewsbury Borough

Dunbarton Burgh

Dunbartonshire

Dundee City

Dunfermline Burgh

Eastbourne Borough

East Suffolk

Edinburgh City

Exeter City

Galshiels Burgh

- Bon Accord

- Burges Abingdon in Com Berk

- Industry & Prudence Conquer

- Labour Omnia Vincit

- Honor Industria

- Spectemur Agendo

- Semper Sursum

- Floriat Bathon

- Forward

- Arte et Labore

- Progress

- Supera Moras

- Per Mare et per Terrum

- Labor  Omnia Vincit

- Virtute et Industria

- Iaith Cwlad Cenedl

- Commit thy Work to God

- Ave Mater Angliae

- Be Just and Fear Not

- Burgi De Cliderowe In-Com-Lang

- One And All

- Camera Principis

- Industria Virtus et Fortitudo

- Auxilo Divino (With Divine Help)

- In Auxilium Omnium (For the assistance of all)

- Prorsum Semper Honeste

- Deus Noster Refugium et Virtus

- Fortitudo et Fidelitus

- Levedax

- Prudentia et Candore

- Esto Rupes in Accessa

- Meliora Sequimur

- Honi Soit Quimal Y Pense.

- Nisi Dominus Frustra

- Semper Fidelis

- Sour Plums

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As well as the above there are Special Units like Harbors, Docks, Markets, Air Support, Atomic Energy etc

CURRENT FORCES LIST


ENGLAND AND WALES

AVON AND SOMERSET

BEDFORDSHIRE

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

CHESHIRE

CLEVELAND

CUMBRIA

DERBYSHIRE

DEVON & CORNWALL

DORSET

DURHAM

ESSEX

GLOUCESTERSHIRE

GREATER MANCHESTER

HAMPSHIRE

HERTFORDSHIRE

HUMBERSIDE

KENT

LANCASHIRE

LEICESTERSHIRE




LINCOLNSHIRE

MERSEYSIDE

METROPOLITAN (LONDON)

NORFOLK

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

NORTHUMBRIA

NORTH YORKSHIRE

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

SOUTH YORKSHIRE

STAFFORDSHIRE

SUFFOLK

SURREY

SUSSEX

THAMES VALLEY

WARWICKSHIRE

WEST MERCIA

WEST MIDLANDS

WEST YORKSHIRE

WILTSHIRE




Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1967

Formed 1974

Formed 1967

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1967

Formed 1841

Formed 1974

Formed 1857

Formed 1974

Formed 1974




Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1829

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1967

Formed 1974

Formed 1968

Formed 1968

Formed 1974

Formed 1967

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1839


Formed 1975

Formed 1948

Formed 1949

Formed 1975

OTHERS

IRELAND  ROYAL ULSTER         Formed 1922

ISLE OF MANN                              Formed 1863

GUERNSEY                                     Formed 1853

JERSEY  STATE OF JERSEY        Formed 1853


There are other countries and Islands that have or had the same type of badges and Helmet Plates and or   Cap Badges like :-

English Police

British India Police

Burma Police

Cyprus Police (1950s & 60s)

Mauritius Police Force

New Zealand Police

Palestine Police (WWII time)

Pakistan Police

Royal Antigua & Barbuda Police
Royal Bahamas Police
Royal Barbados Police

Royal Bermuda Police

Royal Borough Parks Police
Royal Botanic Gardens Constabulary
Royal British Virgin Islands Police
Royal Brunei Police
Royal Cayman Islands Police
Royal Dominica Police

Royal Falkland Islands
Royal Grenada Police

Royal Hong Kong Police

Royal Lesotho Mounted Police
Royal Malaysian Police
Royal Montserrat Police
Royal Newfoundland Constabulary
Royal North West Mounted Police

Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary
Royal St. Christopher - Nevis Police
Royal St. Lucia Police
Royal Solomon Islands Police
Royal Swaziland Police
Royal Turks & Caicos Islands Police

South Africa Police

Southern Rhodesia Police

All are very collectable although somewhat harder to acquire &

I NEED MOST OF THESE PATCHES CAP BADGES AND HELMET PLATES ETC

WALES

DYFED-POWYS

GWENT

NORTH  WALES

SOUTH  WALES

SCOTLAND

CENTRAL SCOTLAND

DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY

FIFE

GRAMPIAN


Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974

Formed 1974


LOTHIAN & BORDERS

NORTHERN

STRATHCLYDE

TAYSIDE


Formed 1975

Formed 1975

Formed 1975

Formed 1975