Type Police Decoration Status Currently awarded | Eligibility Police Officers Established December 04, 1981 | |
Awarded for Valor or Meritorious Service Description Comes in three classes: Gold, Silver and Bronze | ||
The European Policeman Cross of Honor is an honorary medal of the European association of the Bodies and Public Organisms of Security and of Defense in France by the Decree: n° 81-1103 on 4 December 1981.
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Eligibility
Recipient of the "European Policeman Cross of Honor': All member of a public safety forces (Federal officers, Local Policemen or Military police officers that are active, reserve and retired. Has been a help to the European community, must be serving or having served with honor, loyalty, integrity and courage during the course of their career, is the only way to be eligible for the European Policeman Cross of Honor. The European Policeman Cross of Honor can be awarded to exceptional police officers of non European countries by maintaining the quoted preconditions above and there citations has to be presented by two members of the AE-COPSD.
Achievement Conditions
No one may be awarded this honorary distinction, if they do not present all the values of morality and integrity need for the award. A candidates nominations can be sent directly to the reward committee on a suggestion memo. Informational documents that has justify its values of the award with the highest of merits.
Achievement Methods
The European Policeman Cross of Honor is normally awarded by a committee. If not nominated by a member of the awards committee, they look into the candidate's service history. The committee must have documentation on official unit or department letter head (preferable with an ink stamp), stating that the candidate does not have any negative remarks on their service record. It must be written by the candidates section chief.
The committee decisions are firm and irrevocably.
Exceptional candidates
The Cross of Honor does not necessarily have to be awarded to a persons for their merits. An exceptional candidate is any police officer who is wounded in the line of duty, saves the life of a member of the public, captures a top wanted criminal, or is killed in the line of duty. Their actions in one of the following circumstances may be taken into account for the achievement of an honorary decoration. Exceptional candidates who are awarded the cross will come with the honorary palms device attached to both the ribbon bar and the medals ribbon.