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New South Wales Police Service (Australia)

by Miles Li, 14 October 2004

Description of the flag
Parade flag
Lance Pennon
Nemisis Pennant (Water Police)

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Description

The New South Wales Police Service has the Police Service badge (as seen at the Police Service website) on a light blue over white bicolour. It is used swallowtailed on bikes.
Jonathan Dixon, 4 January 2001

A detailed description can be found at http://www.policensw.com/info/history/h8.html.

Note that the badge originally read 'New South Wales Police Force', later changed to 'New South Wales Police Service', and now simply 'New South Wales Police'. Note also that the eagle clutches a red ribbon with the word 'Nemesis' written on it.

Most Police Stations in NSW fly only the State Flag; when there are two or more flagpoles available, the National Flag and/or Police Flag might also be flown. It is not customary to fly the Police Flag on police boats. When on ceremonial duty, police motorcycles fly a swallow-tailed version of the Police Flag, and horse-mounted police fly plain dark blue-above-white swallow-tailed lance pennons.
Miles Li, 14 October 2004

Parade flag

image by Herman FMY, using image of arms from the NSW Parliament website, 10 Mar 2007

image by Herman FMY, 10 Mar 2007 |

New South Wales Police also have different flags for general hoisting and for parading. The parade flag at the Nationl Police Memorial ceremony was plain blue, with the badge of the service at the centre. The flag is fringed in silver as well. Photo reference: No. 5 by Terry Browne.
Herman FMY, 25 February 2007

The ceremonial flag of the New South Wales Police has different obverse and reverse sides. The obverse side of the ceremonial flag is blue with the Arms of New South Wales at the center while the reverse side shows the New South Wales police badge on a blue field. On the ceremonial flag, the motto-scroll is detached from the badge and slightly lengthened unlike its normal depiction, such as on the general-use service flag. The ceremonial flag is completed with white fringes, cords, and tassels.

Sources: Australian Federal Police’s National Police Memorial Dedication photograph collection. Reverse profile: no. 57 by Mike Combe; Obverse profile: no. 31 by Brian Hartigan
Herman FMY, 10 March 2007

Lance Pennon

Having looked at the National Police Memorial photos website, I can now summarize the patterns of lance pennons used by mounted police in each Australian state and territory:
New South Wales: dark blue above white. Proportions 1:3; swallowtail 1/3 the pennon length.
Miles Li, 13 March 2007

Nemesis Pennant

The Nemesis Pennant of the NSW Water Police is the police pennant flown by NSW water police vessels. The Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol is also entitled to fly it due to the fact that, during the early days of the RVCP, its members were 'Special Police Constables' of the 'Water Police Reserve'. In this case, it is a trapezoidal flag, 1:2, quarterly white and navy blue; in the canton is the word NEMESIS sans-serif in red; in the lower fly is the initial RVCP sans-serif in red. The RVCP is entitled to fly it due to the fact that, during the early days of the RVCP, its members were 'Special Police Constables' of the 'Water Police Reserve'.
Source: www.shoal.net.au/~patrol/
Miles Li, 25-26 Aug 2002