Dear Kaldi,
Finally the Icelandic Coast Guard and Police have there 1 thick stripe Commodore and 4 star Brigadier rank. What I don't understand is that the Police needs so much rank insignia. In Belgium only these ranksinsignia are available but earlier we had State Police officer ranks from Second Lieutenant till Lieutenant General now only these excist:
LOCALE POLITIE (Locale Police)
Hoofdcommissaris - Chief Commissioner - Captain*, previous Lt-Colonel
Commissaris - Commissioner - Lieutenant, previous Major
Aspirant Commissaris - Candidate Commissioner - Second Lieutenant
Hoofdinspecteur - Chief Inspector - Chief Warrant Officer UK
Aspirant Hoofdinspecteur - Candidate Chief Inspector - Warrant Officer UK
Inspecteur - Inspector - Master Sergeant
Aspirant Inspecteur - Candidate Inspector - Sergeant
Hulpagent - Traffic Police Officer - Corporal
Aspirant Hulpagent - Candidate Traffic Police Officer - Private
* Ranks are only indications not real ranks
The ranks for Federal Police are the same but the rank of Hoofdcommissaris and Commissaris are now used to give ranks to previous officers of the Rijkswacht / Gendarmerie (State Police) from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant General. The have a function badge on there right pocket to indicate there function. I will give them on a later time. You can see them on
http://www.uniforminsignia.org/browse.p ... at=Belgium[/web]
Kind regards
kaldi wrote:It seems to be a new rank for the Icelandic coast guard, i was looking in yesterdays newspaper and looked an article about uniforminsignia for Icelandic persons in the police and coast guard.
The director general of the Icelandic coast guard was dressed in a uniform where he had one thick stripe where on top was a sircle simular to the danish for commodore.
http://www.visir.is/ExternalData/pdf/fbl/050324.pdf and scroll down far page 24. to be exact
ps i have allready put this rank on my home page
http://www.kaldi.is/merkjavara/icelandc ... aeslan.htm
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Peter MEIJLAERS
Candidate Hierarchiologist
3900 Overpelt, Limburg, BELGIUM
hierarkiologio@yahoo.com
Intrests are: Scientific study of Hierarchiology, Hierarchy, Ranks, Grades, Orders, Decorations, Heraldry, etc