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| | The Collector's Guild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Generally the cross-straps were in fl or brown leather, depending on which branch of Police service the wearer served in. |
 | | 1933 standardized the cross-strap for the Prussian police and regulations of 1936 introduced a white belt and cross-strap with silver fittings for EM/NCO’s ranks serving with the Schutzpolizei, (Protection Police), the Gemeindepolizei, (Local Municipal Police) the Polizei Sanitäts und Veterinärdienst, (Police Medical and Veterinary Service), and the Verwaltungspolizei, (Administration Police), for wear on special occasions. |
 | | Further regulations of June 1939 extended wear of the white cross-strap and belt to personnel serving with the Wasserschutzpolizei, (Water Protection Police), but with gilt fittings. |
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