Police Badge Collectors?

[The Big D]

Any police badge collectors on board?

I have a rather modest collection and wondering who else may have similar interests.

Be safe.

 

[Glock 'em down]

I have a few.

I have the one from a former security agency I used to work for. It's basically a 7 point star...

...with the Absentee-Shawnee logo in the center where the state seal is on most all badges.

I also have an Oklahoma Centennial badge that was made during our State's Centennial back in 2007.

I also have an extra from the agency I'm with now that I will get to keep when I retire.

 

[sipowicz]

I love collecting them but it's no fun buying them...I like to get stopped by a cop and when he comes up to my window, I rip the badge off and speed away.

 

[kennyb]

yep...i have a few that i have accumulated through the years

 

[handejector]

I love collecting them but it's no fun buying them...I like to get stopped by a cop and when he comes up to my window, I rip the badge off and speed away.

I like that.
If you acquire any in rural Georgia or Alabama, you'll probably have several "sample" bullets you can display with them (unless they wind up in envelopes marked "Evidence").
I'd recommend a rental car.

 

[starman041]

Don't know if you would call it a collection, but here are the badges from the three departments I worked for in 34 years of law enforcenent.
Letf to right: First job with a small twon, three different badge sets from the Sheriff's department (changed three times in 30 years) and two from the state agency I worked for (changed badges twice).

 

[Lee Barner]

starman, that is a wonderful display of your career. i'm proud for you for your service to the folks in texas.

i do have a question about selling badges. i have a couple of CA LE badges i would like to sell, but not sure if i can sell them to a CA resident or not. any info out there on this topic? thanks

 

[canoeguy]

"Badges? We ain't got not badges, we don't need no stinking badges!"

YouTube - We don't need no stinking badges!

Alfonso Bedoya in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre".

 

[starman041]

I do not know of any law against selling LE badges. My son collects badges and has purchased them from auction sites, at gun shows and other public sources.
Some departments don't let their officers keep their badges, so those departments would be interested if they saw one of their current badges advertised for sell, but I think that would be a rare occasion.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

Don't know if you would call it a collection, but here are the badges from the three departments I worked for in 34 years of law enforcenent.
Letf to right: First job with a small twon, three different badge sets from the Sheriff's department (changed three times in 30 years) and two from the state agency I worked for (changed badges twice).

Starman, is that a TABC badge on the top right?

 

[starman041]

Starman, is that a TABC badge on the top right?

No, it was the Texas Commission on Private Security badge. That was a stand alone LE agency regulating the private security industry.
That agency has now been incorporated into the Texas Department of Publice Safety.

 

[Toyman]

Gun and badge Iowa State Patrol

Marion County, Iowa badge I wore

1920/1930 Cedar Rapids, Iowa badge

25th anniversary Las Vegas Metro PD badge

35th anniversary Las Vegas Metro PD badge

 

[greyhawk178]

This is the only one I have. It was awarded at retirement....Geez...sure came out big. Sorry. Can someone make this a bit smaller, please ?????

 

[armadillo]

Not really. But, I lived in the D. C. area for several years and managed to get the commemorative badges from the "Millennium" and the Inaugurations of Clinton '97 and Bush '01 from the Capitol Police and The D. C. Metro Police.

 

[TheGreatGonzo]

For several years I collected federal commemorative badges (inaugural; millennium; anniversiary; special event; Olympic; etc). At one point, my collection was well over 150 badges. A few years ago I decided the hobby was a little too time consuming so I get rid of almost all of them. I only kept the ones from the agency I work for. I still have a couple of others floating around I have not managed to sell yet. It is a great hobby, but it can expensive and addictive!
Gonzo

 

[tripledipper]

NYPD badges had to be turned in when retiring but most cops had "dupes" which they wore while working (lost badge=charges) and kept.

 

[Memphis]

Nice badges guys... I sure wish I could find a "Panama Canal Zone Police" badge to go with that Pre-26 I recently found.

Speaking of badges, whatever happened to Tony Perrin (law&order). I miss his posts and wit.

Roger

 

[681ismyfavorite]

i dont collect them personally, but ive known a few women that could say they have...LOL...

 

[bobcat]

I'm not exactly a collector, but I do have my old badges from the ex-INS, a centennial commemorative badge from the INS, a couple of others. I do have a modest patch collection, and still swap some, but I've kind of gotten away from it. It was getting time consuming and to many folks were getting VERY proud of their patches.

However if anyone on the board wants to swap for, drop me an email, I've got some uniform tearoffs from INS INspections.

Take care...

 

[MKT]

That's Ok, Alaska is a big state.

The only "collection" of badges I have are the ones I've worn, all BO. I got to keep my original brass badge when it became obsolete, then again after the merger into DHS as the replacement became obsolete. I have a bunch of patches I've amassed over the past 24 years and someday I may move into collecting badges.