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![[Flag of International Police Association]](../images/i/int-ipa.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 December 2007See also:
The International Police Association was founded in 1950 to create
friendly links and encourage cooperation between individual police
officers around the world. It is therefore nothing like Interpol, but
rather a free association of policemen with no official, and scarce
professional ties. It has 300,000 members and sections in 61 countries. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Police_Association.
Its emblem is a golden-rimmed yellow dense eight-pointed star bearing
a round Earth map in light blue with dark red landmasses and yellow
gridlines under them, surrounded by a golden-rimmed dark blue ring bearing
the lettering "International Police Association" in sans-serif yellow
capitals and a small yellow five pointed star at the bottom. The whole is
bracketed by two relatively small stylized golden laurel branches and at
the bottom a golden-rimmed dark blue scroll reading "Servo per amikeco"
(Esperanto for "Service through friendship") in yellow sans-serif capitals.
This according to http://www.haenni-buerglen-ur.ch/ipa-star.gif,
a very large image on line. This emblem is used on a light blue flag, according
to this photo on line at
http://www.esperanto.no/esperantonytt/2003/IPA_banner.jpgg.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 December 2007
![[Badge of International Police Association]](../images/i/int)ipa.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 December 2007
The elaborate IPA flag has a modest counterpart in the
attached Belgian version, table size, doing
away with the star and keeping only the globe, placed in the middle stripe of
the national flag (found on German eBay as item no. 190107390727, end 6 May
2007). The ring around the globe unites the acronym and the motto.
Bib. reference [Lup93] i.e. ‘Drapeaux et insignes de police dans le monde’
(Police flags and badges in the world) by Michel Lupant dedicates pages 17-18 to
IPA flags, Belgian as well as international. The international flag is shown as
fig. 23 with an emblem slightly smaller than the one shown on the esperanto.no
site; furthermore the emblem is said to be white.
Jan Mertens, 16 December 2007
Local sections of the International Police Association seem to use the same
emblem, on modified flags. I saw recently the
guidon of the Portuguese section, also light blue like the main
organization's, but with the Portuguese national flag on the canton and a the
laurels (IIRC missing from around the emblem) on an orle all around the edge
(external to the canton).
At http://www.ig-yachting.de/images/ipastander_000.gif, the yachting
burgee of the German section of IPA, a ~3:5 yellow triangular flag with
the logo on the hoist square modified (I suppose to offer contrast on the
background) to show a white (not yellow) eight-pointed star and encircled
by dark blue (not yellow) laurels; on the fly the lettering "International
Police Association" in two lines above smaller "Deutsche Sektion e.V.",
set in serifed dark blue letters.
Furthermore, the emblem seems to have received its current form in 1974,
as most depictions include a copyright note "(c) by IPA, 1974".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 December 2007
