I'm a militaria collector from China, I happened to find this website a couple of days ago, It's excellent! especially the artworks! but I found that there's something not quite right about the Chinese Police 1992 collar tabs and 1995 shoulder boards which I have a special interest in. I'd like to post some pics of some of my collections, I hope they could be helpful if you want to improve the artworks.
The Chinese police 92 collar tabs used from 1992-1995 were the 1st version of police rank insignia and were the best design ever in China (in my opinion), because it was the 1st and the only time that we dropped the old pattern of "strip & star" in rank insignia designing.
There are 4 departments in the Chinese Police: 1, public security 2,national security(anti-espionage),3,prison guards 4,court police. Each department(except the public security) had its own distinctive color shown on the borders of the collar tabs. And, the collar tabs worn by the technical personel were white, the collar tabs worn by the rest of the policemen were dark green.
So,there were 8 different kinds of collar tabs
1,public security (dark green, no border) --->5,Its technical personel(white, no border)
2,national security (dark green, blue border) --->6,Its technical personel(white, blue border)
3,prison guards (dark green, red border) --->7,Its technical personel(white, red border)
4,court police (dark green, yellow border) --->8,Its technical personel(white, yellow border)
And, each kind of the collar tabs mentioned above had 3 versions: 1, "hard" collar tabs for winter uniform(with aluminium insignia on); 2, "soft" collar tabs for summer uniform(embroidered insignia on velvet)(earlier version);3,"soft' collar tabs for summer uniform(later version).
Pictures
1,collar tabs for winter uniforms
The 1st row(left to right):
public security(technical):superintendent 3rd class; superintendent 2nd class(2);superintendent 1st class
The 2nd row(left to right):
public security:constable 2nd class(2); supervisor 3rd class; police cadet.
The 3rd row(left to right):
prison guards: cadet; superintendent 1st class; superintendent 3rd class(technical);supervisor 2nd class(techinical)
2,Close-up picture1 Note the aluminium triangle insignias are not flat as they are illustrated in the artworks. the resolution of the picture is not so good, I'll try to take a better picture and post it later.
cadet(public security); cadet(prison guards)
superintendent 1st class(prison guards); superintendent 1st class(public security-techinical)
3,Close-up picture2
cadet(public security); constable 2nd class(public security)
Because of my poor English, I'm sure that there must be something confusing in this post, sorry.:-)
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