Police Overseas Service Medal (Australia)
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The Police Overseas Service Medal is an award in the Australian honours system
. The award is presented to those members of an Australian Police force who undertake service;
The award was introduced by letters patent
on 25 April 1991.
Recipients of the Police Overseas Service Medal are not entitled to any post-nominal letters as a result.
have been declared for the Police Overseas Service Medal as of 1 December 2008. These are:
Australian Honours System
-History:The Commonwealth of Australia, until 1975, used the Imperial or British honours system. Only a handful of peerages were created for Australians, some in recognition of public services rendered in Britain rather than Australia. Some hereditary peers and baronets whose titles derive from...
. The award is presented to those members of an Australian Police force who undertake service;
- with international peace-keeping organisations, or
- following a request from another government for assistance.
The award was introduced by letters patent
Letters patent
Letters patent are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch or president, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title, or status to a person or corporation...
on 25 April 1991.
Recipients of the Police Overseas Service Medal are not entitled to any post-nominal letters as a result.
Description
- The Police Overseas Service Medal features a globe of the world surmounted by a branch of wattle, which is Australia's national floral emblem. The globe is centred on CyprusCyprusCyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
, the first international deployment of Australian police. The rim of the medal is a chequerboard pattern, which symbolises police forces across the world. The circular, nickel-silver medal is ensigned with the Crown of St EdwardSt. Edward's CrownSt Edward's Crown was one of the English Crown Jewels and remains one of the senior British Crown Jewels, being the official coronation crown used in the coronation of first English, then British, and finally Commonwealth realms monarchs...
. - The back of the medal displays a Federation StarCommonwealth StarThe Commonwealth Star is a seven-pointed star symbolising the Federation of Australia which came into force on 1 January 1901....
. The words 'Police Overseas Service Medal' are inscribed around the rim. - The 32 mm-wide ribbon consists of alternating squares of black and white in the chequerboard pattern commonly representative of police services.
Clasps
Eleven claspsMedal bar
A medal bar or medal clasp is a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal. It is most commonly used to indicate the campaign or operation the recipient received the award for, and multiple bars on the same medal are used to indicate that the...
have been declared for the Police Overseas Service Medal as of 1 December 2008. These are:
- Bougainville
- November 1997 - Present
- Cambodia
- May 1992 - September 1993
- Cyprus
- May 1964 - Present
- East Timor
- 25 October 1999 - 20 May 2005
- Haiti
- November 1994 - March 1995
- Mozambique
- March 1994 - December 1994
- RAMSI
- Service with the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, 21 July 2003 - Present
- Solomon Islands
- 1992
- Somalia
- April 1993 - July 1994
- Sudan
- 9 March 2006 - Present
- Timor Leste
- 20 May 2005 - Present