BADGES
Probation officer assistant badge #2. Donated by Chief, Officer Standards Branch, PPSO, AO (retired).
U.S. Pretrial Services Officer badge. No information currently known.
U.S. Courts Pretrial Services Commemorative badge. 2-D image on die created by a Pantograph machine. See Pretrial commemorative badge page for more details.
The die after hours of hand sculpting and modelling by the die cutter. See Pretrial commemorative badge page for more details.
35-year Pretrial Service commemorative badge, celebrating the Pretrial Services Act of 1982. The badge is custom made and supplied in high-quality nickel silver finish with hard fired blue and black cloisonné enamel. 3" tall and made by Smith & Warren in the USA. Designed by this curator.
U.S. Courts Federal Agent Probation Officer badge Artwork. Custom 3" badge manufactured by Smith & Warren in 2019. Design ideas solicited from staff of Western District of North Carolina. Final design by Chief U.S. Probation Officer, Senior U.S. Probation Officers.
Custom 3" badge manufactured by Smith & Warren in 2019. Design ideas solicited from staff of Western District of North Carolina. Final design by Chief U.S. Probation Officer, Senior U.S. Probation Officers. The badge is a single- piece design with applied federal agent panel. Flat back and is attached with a strong adhesive to the two-piece credential case. Donation by Chief U.S. Probation Officer.
Custom badge and custom credential holder with badge cutout.
Artwork for new Connecticut duty badge, inspired by the 2017 pretrial 35-year commemorative badge. Design team consisted of Chief U.S. Probation Officer (retired) and three officers. Produced in 2017 by Smith & Warren in the USA.
Custom die and raw finding for Connecticut duty badge. Image courtesy of Smith & Warren.
New Connecticut duty badge, inspired by the 2017 pretrial 35-year commemorative badge. Design team consisted of Chief U.S. Probation Officer (retired) and three officers. Produced in 2017 by Smith & Warren in the USA.
Badge manufactured by Entenmann-Rovin, Model #186-786. Issued as a belt badge in 2002 for officers who carried firearms. In 2009/2010, all officers were issued a Smith and Warren Model S522A as a belt badge. Image donation courtesy of Assistant Deputy Chief U.S. Probation Officer, Western District of Pennsylvania, retired.
3" Smith & Warren S522A badge, issued as a belt badge. Image donated by U.S. Probation Officer Specialist Western District of Pennsylvania.
Department of Justice, Southern District of Illinois probation officer badge. The badge is believed to be new, and would therefore be a fake, or manufactured for an unknown reason. Smith & Warren still offer this badge as S169. Badge is not in the Museum, but in the possession of another USPO. This example was obtained from the same seller as the Northern District of Illinois probation officer badge below. The badge uses hard enameling, a process not seen in U.S. Probation badges of this age. See the Joseph E. Lewis badge above for an example of a legitimate example. Image donation 2023.
Back of badge. These holes are to let steam escape when being soldered. They are unusually shaped and suspect.
Department of Justice, Northern District of Illinois probation officer badge. The badge is also believed to be a fake or manufactured for an unknown reason. Smith & Warren still offer this badge as S169. The center seal, which has some age, is not original and the back of the badge appears to be purposely aged in spots. Thomas Burn and September 4, 1939, is etched into the back of the badge. The front of the badge appears to be new with hard enameling, a process not seen in U.S. Probation badges of this age. See the Joseph E. Lewis badge above for an example of a legitimate example. Museum purchase 2022.
Thomas Burn and September 4, 1939, is etched into the back of the badge.
Retired U.S. Courts Pretrial badge manufactured by Smith and Warren. Center seal eagle has a color enamel in the shield and cloud. First one of this type seen. Web image 2023.
BEWARE!
At the time of my retirement PPSO did not require embedment of badges. There is no greater historical destruction of a badge.
Against my advice and that of the embedment community, the Western District of Michigan used this procedure for my badge and credentials. The plastic credentials cracked right through my face. I have left them in the box in which they were presented. It is the greatest sign of distrust and disrespect of someone with a top-secret security clearance who served the district and the country. It reflects poorly on the district. Do not do it!
U.S. Courts Probation Centennial badge inspired by a U.S. Penal and Correctional Institution badge from the 1920s/30s art deco era and worn by guards on Alcatraz Island. Similar eagle designs were used on many federal buildings during this era.
U.S. Courts Probation Centennial badge set with pin and coin.
Get yours! The first and only credential patch. Leather look PVC based on a 1966 credential. After an approved donation, you will receive a Museum CRED patch. This offer is valid while supplies last and only one patch per person.