ITALIAN POLICE OFFICERS PAI (Polizia Africa Italiana) CAP BADGE

Italian PAI officers peak cap badge.

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Italian Africa Police (Italian: Polizia dell'Africa Italiana , or PAI, also known as Police of Italian Africa ) (1936-1944). After the end of the war in Ethiopia in late 1936 early 1937, the Corps of "Polizia Coloniale" (Colonial Police) was created to be the police in the colonies in Africa ( Libya ) and it started issuing its own license plates in Mach 1938. The unit was created as a result of the reorganization of public safety units operating in Italian North Africa ( Africa Settentrionale Italiana , or ASI) and to later garrison Ethiopia and the rest of Italian East Africa ( Africa Orientale Italiana , or AOI). In 1939 it became "Polizia dell'Africa Italiana" (Police of Italian Africa), or P.A.I. and received armoured cars, light tanks ( tankettes ), motorcycles, motor-tricycles and cars, in totaling they were about 1,000 vehicles and as many motorcycles.

Badge has some red enamel missing but complete with screw posts.