South Australia Police Service Medal

Award

South Australia Police Service Medal

Obverse of medal and ribbon

Type| Medal
Awarded for| long and diligent service
Presented by| Government of South Australia
Eligibility| members of the South Australia Police
Post-nominals| nil
Clasps| ten year increments - 10, 20, 30, 40.
Status| Currently awarded
Established| 1998

The South Australia Police Service Medal was established in 1998 to recognize long and diligent service to the South Australia Police.

## Criteria[edit]

The medal may be awarded to sworn and unsworn employees who have completed a period of ten years continuous, diligent and ethical service to the South Australia Police after 14 February 1975. The award consists of a medal, miniature, and ribbon bar. Employees who have completed additional ten-year increments are awarded twenty, thirty, and forty year clasps.

## Description and Use[edit]

The South Australia Police Service Medal is a circular silver medal, 38 mm in diameter, surmounted with St Edward's Crown. The obverse displays the piping shrike (gymnorhina tibicen leuconota) emblem of the Government of South Australia, surrounded by the words 'DILIGENT AND ETHICAL SERVICE' and 'SOUTH AUSTRALIA POLICE'.

The medal is suspended by a ribbon coloured in vertical blue and white stripes in an inverse colour pattern to the Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal that had previously been issued to Australian Police. This ribbon is shared with the Tasmania Police Medal, Victoria Police Medal, and Western Australia Police Medal.

The blank reverse is engraved at its center with the recipient's surname and initials.

According to SAPOL instructions, serving members should wear their medal on the right breast on all occasions when full size orders, decorations, and medals are worn.[citation needed]

## Presentations[edit]

The Government of South Australia and the South Australia Police conduct regular presentation ceremonies for this award. They are usually held at Fort Largs Police Academy.

## See also[edit]

* Australian Honours Order of Precedence

## References[edit]

South Australia Police Service Medal, undated pamphlet, Rewards and Recognition Clerk, SAPOL.

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South Australia Police

Divisions and sectors|

* Metropolitan Operations Service (Public Transport Safety Branch)
* State Operations Service (Traffic Services Branch, State Tactical Response Group)
* Crime Service (Major Crime Investigations Branch, Serious and Organised Crime Branch)
* Security and Emergency Management Service (Special Tasks and Rescue (STAR Group), Water Operations Unit, Dog Operations Unit, Mounted Operations Unit, Security Response Section, Police Security Officers (PSOs), Communications Group)
* Operations Support Service (Forensic Services Branch, Firearms Branch, Prosecution Services Branch, State Intelligence Branch)
* Governance and Capability Service (Commissioner’s Support Branch, Ethical and Professional Standards Branch)
* Band of the South Australia Police

Commissioners|

* Henry Inman (1838-1840)
* Major Thomas Shuldham O'Halloran (1840-1843)
* Boyle Travers Finniss (1843-1847)
* George Frederick Dashwood (1847-1851)
* Alexander Tolmer (1852-1853)
* Colonel Peter Warburton (1853-1867)
* George Hamilton (1867-1882)
* William John Peterswald (1882-1896)
* Lewis George Madley (1896-1909)
* William Henry Raymond (1910-1917)
* Thomas Edwards (1917-1920)
* Brigadier General Sir Raymond Leane (1920-1944)
* William Francis Johns (1944-1950)
* Ivor Bren Green (1950-1957)
* Brigadier John McKinna (1957-1972)
* Harold Salisbury (1972-1978)
* Laurence Draper (1978-1982)
* John Bryan Giles (1982-1983)
* David Hunt (1983-1996)
* Malcolm Hyde (1997-2012)
* Gary Burns (2012-2015)
* Grant Stevens (2015-current)

Related articles|

* South Australia Police Historical Society
* South Australia Police Service Medal

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