1. Current role and service details
No officer information is uploaded or saved. This prototype runs in your browser.
2. Breaks in current service category
Add each period when the officer was not serving. Use the first day out of service and the first day back in service. The calculator excludes those days from the provisional service total.
3. Previous or concurrent service Branch-specific selection
Include service before joining your current role and any service undertaken at the same time. This can affect historic Jubilee and Coronation assessments, but not every service type counts for every award.
Choose Yes above to reveal the service-type dropdown, relevant military / reserve / cadet branch and officer/other-rank dropdowns, and start/end dates.
Add a separate row for each period, including repeated periods in the same service. Enter the first day and the last day actually serving. Tick Still serving instead of an end date for concurrent ongoing service. Do not duplicate the current service period entered above. Overlapping days are not double-counted when a specific commemorative award allows aggregation. Long-service awards follow separate regulations. For any Full-Time Reserve Service (FTRS) engagement, select FTRS rather than ordinary Volunteer Reserve Forces; whether individual periods are reckonable depends on MOD rules.
Only uniformed adult cadet-volunteer service is treated as potentially qualifying for the Cadet Forces Medal; civilian instructor service is not a selectable qualifying category. Cadet service is not treated as Regular Armed Forces service. Reserve annual training/bounty evidence, reckonability and conduct require verification. Previous regular police service must be checked for Police LSGC reckonability.
4. Previous or additional PSNI service
If your current force is PSNI, the main joining date is used automatically. If you previously served with PSNI, enter the dates below.
When you choose Yes, a date range appears automatically. Enter each PSNI service period. End dates are the last day in service. Do not duplicate your current PSNI service period.
The five-year PSNI Service Medal is calculated separately from the standard Police LSGC Medal. Award-specific reckonable service, breaks and exceptional routes may need confirmation.
5. Jubilee, Coronation and ceremonial deployment
The system checks historic qualifying dates against each eligible service type, accounting for overlapping periods. Tick a separate qualifying route where applicable; selecting it does not confirm an award.
6. Additional honours and awards
Select honours and medals already held or independently confirmed. For MBE, OBE, CBE and BEM choose the correct Civil or Military Division. The US Bronze Star Medal has optional V-device and repeat-award settings below the catalogue. The Cadet Forces Medal, VRSM and regular Armed Forces long-service medals are assessed in Section 3 and cannot be manually selected here. Historical awards, campaign medals, named UN/NATO/EU/foreign awards and Order of St John awards remain selectable. For operational medals, use the quick-award selection in Section 7, or add detailed tours for operational dates and ACSM screening. Both ACSM awards are assessed from detailed service records instead of manual selection.
Select only devices documented in the actual US award citation. This is a foreign decoration: UK permission to accept and wear is assessed separately.
1 award(s) · No additional devices
Unticked foreign and international awards are shown amber as “Eligibility / authority requires confirmation”. Restricted or mission-specific permission must be checked separately. Do not tick for an award that is not approved for unrestricted wear.
British Empire honours: choose the Civil or Military Division for your actual award. This affects the ribbon (Military has a centre grey stripe), not the precedence of the grade. Historical pre-1937 awards used different ribbons.
7. Military operational medals & deployment history
Quick-select medals actually awarded and tick their devices. The calculator checks any recorded military service dates against broad, published campaign windows where available; no additional deployment dates are needed for this quick method. Detailed tours remain optional for ACSM calculations, repeat deployments or complex awards. A service-date overlap is not proof of operational medal entitlement. A second tour does not automatically mean a second medal.
Select the medal you hold and tick the authorised devices. No extra tour dates are requested. If you entered previous or concurrent Regular Armed Forces, FTRS or Volunteer Reserve service, the calculator checks for obvious conflicts with published campaign date ranges. Detailed tour dates are only necessary for ACSM screening or more complex cases.
Devices and emblems for the selected medal. Tick only distinctions officially awarded to you. Clasp options are medal-specific; commendations are separate honours whose emblems may be worn on a campaign ribbon where authorised. The list is a reference, not proof of entitlement.
If a medal's historical or mission-specific device isn't listed, use the field above and confirm the entitlement with MOD Medal Office. Selecting a checkbox never creates an entitlement.
Detailed deployments (for ACSM / complex tour history)
For a medal selected above without a deployment record, the calculator retains its catalogue position as a provisional fallback. Enter an award date if you know it to improve operational-medal ordering; deployment starts are used as an indicative fallback only. Duplicate tours of the same medal are grouped, and multiple declared devices are listed without inventing entitlement. Device combinations need verification against the relevant award regulations. Mission-specific UN/NATO awards and additional medal awards require verification by the MOD Medal Office.
8. Generate entitlement summary
This prototype calculates each recorded service category separately and sorts selected awards using a simplified precedence catalogue. Service-duration matches are displayed in green for long-service medals, subject to efficiency, conduct and formal approval; only unresolved eligibility is marked amber.
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Police and related service medal assessment
Recorded additional service
Jubilee and Coronation assessment
Diamond Jubilee 2012: five full years of eligible service on 6 February 2012, with overlapping periods counted only once. The PCSO and Special Constabulary routes also have specific joining or attestation conditions in Home Office Circular 010/2011. Mixed-service exceptions needing interpretation are displayed for manual review, not silently omitted.
Recorded operational tours and devices
Accumulated Campaign Service Medal assessment
Medal row · original Commons artwork where available
Long-service medals meeting recorded thresholds are shown in green, subject to efficiency, conduct and formal approval. Amber-labelled ribbons are potential awards requiring manual review, shown in this visual row for reference only. They are not confirmed entitlements, but remain visible in the indicative order-of-wear list with an amber Eligibility requires confirmation marker. Ask your local force awards secretariat to check eligibility against original service records and award criteria.
Version 39 Beta: original Commons SVG or PNG artwork is shown where sourced and accessible. Hatched placeholders mean artwork is not yet embedded or cannot be verified. To obtain a single offline HTML with original file bytes, use the artwork pack builder below while connected to the internet.
Official medal image references (optional, online)
GOV.UK medal catalogue · Coronation medal photograph · Platinum Jubilee medal photograph
Indicative order of wear · including awards requiring confirmation
Awards marked Eligibility requires confirmation are included only to show their potential position in the sequence. Confirm entitlement and authority to wear with the responsible awards authority before wearing them. The listed sequence is provisional and subject to verification against the current official Order of Wear.
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Help the National Police Ceremonial Network correct medal entitlement, ribbon artwork or order-of-wear issues. Email feedback to honourguard@westmidlands.police.uk.
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Military, foreign awards, St John and ribbon sources
Military and Order of St John awards are manual selections, not automatic entitlements. Where a matching Commons ribbon file is known, the original image is displayed online or after creating an offline artwork pack; the rest remain explicitly unverified. The catalogue includes historical awards and is not an authoritative exhaustive register. Medal clasps, bars and campaign distinctions require verification. The downloaded offline copy embeds successfully retrieved images. The source build has no bundled Commons binary files. Online artwork links require internet; the optional offline pack builder must successfully import image bytes and preserve attribution before an image is embedded. Version 39 Beta expands verified source links for UN, NATO and selected foreign decorations. Every image retains individual source and licensing information.
MOD medal catalogue and eligibility · JSP 761 order of wear · Wikimedia Commons ribbon artwork
Order of St John – award notes
Choose only your current grade of the Order, not every grade previously held. The Service Medal is a separate award; do not select both the standard medal and its 50-year ultra-long-service extension as separate medal-row entries. Bars are not separate medals. Service Medal qualification and St John appointment are not inferred from police service.
St John Scotland Handbook 2025: service medal and bar guidance · Order grades. The Order and Service Medal now have Commons SVG source references; the 50-year extension shares the base ribbon pending confirmation of any device.
9. Ribbon artwork library & offline pack builder
For offline use, download the original Commons SVG files (or original PNG ribbon files where no matching SVG has been verified), check their reuse licences, and package them into a new single HTML file. Nothing about the officer or their service history is sent. Only public medal-file names are requested from Commons.
118 award entries · 89 with linked Commons artwork (69 SVG, 20 PNG) · 29 without a confirmed ribbon image · 88 entries loaded from embedded files.
74 original ribbon images are already embedded and available offline. Use the button only to fetch remaining artwork and export another copy.
Artwork catalogue audit and missing sources
“Mapped” identifies a Commons file-title match, not formal verification of fabric specifications, variant or wear authorisation. Images are only included in exports after their live file and licence metadata checks succeed.
Artwork credits, licences and provenance
Manual import if your browser blocks automatic downloads
You can save the source files yourself from the linked Commons pages, select their original SVG/PNG files below, then use the export button. Imports are matched by exact original file name. If the licence cannot be retrieved, the export will flag it for review.