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Main Automobile Inspectorate Badge. - Haddock - 12-28-2006
Second one is a two pieces structure, you can see that from the pic.
Main Automobile Inspectorate Badge. - desantnik - 12-29-2006
Haddock Wrote:Second one is a two pieces structure, you can see that from the pic.
Traffic Police
Main Automobile Inspectorate Badge. - Stahanov - 03-12-2009
I accidentally bumped on this militia badge on Ebay. I dug around the site more, and found several for sale with individual serial numbers (naturally). A pretty cool looking badge! There's a mint mark on the back too.
Do you guys have ideas about dating? Looks 80's to me. How about use? Traffic police?
Main Automobile Inspectorate Badge. - Aharim - 03-13-2009
Traffic police or equivalent. I think GAI represents State Automobile Inspectorate or something like that. Looks fairly recent (as in 80's).
Main Automobile Inspectorate Badge. - Kirchgoens - 03-13-2009
Yes, it's the traffic police. They still fall under this name in many former republics.
Main Automobile Inspectorate Badge. - Stahanov - 03-13-2009
Thanks guys. I'll pick this up on Ebay and start my own police extortion racket in the great style of the Russian militia. "No papers? It's Lubyanka for you, man, unless my wallet gets fatter fast".
Main Automobile Inspectorate Badge. - Esteban_cool - 03-13-2009
Kirchgoens Wrote:Yes, it's the traffic police. They still fall under this name in many former republics.
It´s what is known as DPS in Russia nowadays?
Main Automobile Inspectorate Badge. - Stahanov - 03-13-2009
It's still GAI actually. Check this out: GAI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Main Automobile Inspectorate Badge. - Al-muell - 03-14-2009
When I as in Russia in 2005 it was called DPS (Dorozhno-Patrolnaya Sluzhba - road patrol service). But lately I have rean an artickle in which they still call it GAI (Gosudarstwiennaya Avtomobilnaya Inspektsiya). So maybe they have returned to the name.
Main Automobile Inspectorate Badge. - Esteban_cool - 03-14-2009
Maybe DPS is a branch of GAI?