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{{infobox award
| name = Overseas Territories Police Medal<br />''Formerly Colonial Police Medal''
| image = [[File:UK Colonial Police Medal for Gallantry ribbon bar.PNG|100px]]<br />Ribbon bar of the CPM for Gallantry<br />[[File:UK Colonial Police Medal for Meritorious Service ribbon bar.PNG|100px]]<br />Ribbon bar of medal for Meritorious Service
| caption =
| presenter = the [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|King of the United Kingdom]]
| country = [[British Overseas Territories]]
| type = Medal
| eligibility = police officers in [[British Overseas Territories]], [[Crown Colonies]], and [[British Dependent Territories]]
| awarded_for = gallantry or distinguished service
| campaign =
| status = CPM for Meritorious Service currently awarded<br />CPM for Gallantry replaced by [[King's Gallantry Medal]]
| description =
| motto =
| clasps =
| post-nominals = CPM (until 2012)<br />OTPM (from 2012)
| established =
| firstawarded = 8 November 1938<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34568 |page=6988 |date=8 November 1938}}</ref>
| lastawarded =
| total_awarded =
| total_awarded_posthumously =
| total_recipients =
| precedence_label = Order of Wear
| individual =
| higher = [[Sierra Leone Fire Brigades Medal]]<ref name="oow">{{londongazette|issue=62529|page=326|date=11 January 2019|supp=y}}</ref>
| same = Colonial Police Medal
| lower =
| related =
| image2 =
| caption2 =
}}
The '''Overseas Territories Police Medal''' ('''OTPM'''), known as the '''Colonial Police Medal''' ('''CPM''') until April 2012,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60172|page=11415|date=14 June 2012}}</ref> is a medal awarded for gallantry or distinguished service to all ranks of [[police]] forces and organised [[Fire department|fire brigades]] in [[British Overseas Territories]], and formerly in [[Crown Colonies]] and [[British Dependent Territories]].<ref name=Dorling>{{Cite book |last=Dorling |first=H. Taprell |author-link= H. Taprell Dorling |date=1956 |title=Ribbons and Medals |page=53 |location=London |publisher=A.H.Baldwin & Sons |oclc=930416375}}</ref> Police officers in these areas can also be awarded the higher ranking [[King's Police Medal]].<ref name="oow"/> The CPM was first awarded in 1938.<ref name=Abbott/>
The most common form of the
Ribbon clasps could be bestowed to the gallantry medal for further acts, marked with a silver rosette on the ribbon when worn alone.<ref name=Dorling/>
From 1938 to 1979, 482 medals for gallantry were awarded, including 17 to fire brigade members, in addition to nine second award clasps. In the same period 3,305 medals for meritorious service were awarded, including 169 to fire brigade members.<ref name=Abbott/>
When worn with other decorations, the medal for gallantry is worn immediately before the King’s Gallantry Medal, the medal for meritorious service immediately before jubilee and coronation awards.<ref name="oow"/>
==Description==
It is a circular silver medal, 36 mm in diameter, with the ribbon suspended from a ring. It has the following design:<ref name=Abbott>{{Cite book |last1=Abbott |first1=PE |last2=Tamplin |first2=JMA |date=1981 |title=British Gallantry Awards |pages=41–42 |location=London |publisher=Nimrod Dix and Co |ISBN=9780902633742}}</ref>
* The obverse bears the profile of the reigning monarch with an appropriate inscription.
* There are different reverse designs for police and fire brigade recipients:<br />Police: a vertical truncheon in front of a laurel wreath, surrounded by the words <small>'OVERSEAS TERRITORIES POLICE FORCES FOR GALLANTRY',</small> or <small>'FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE'</small>. Until 2012 the wording referred to <small>'COLONIAL POLICE FORCES'</small>.<br />Fire brigade: a firefighter's helmet and axe superimposed on a laurel wreath. Inscribed around the edge are the words <small>'OVERSEAS TERRITORIES FIRE BRIGADES FOR GALLANTRY',</small> or <small>'FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE'</small>. Until 2012 the wording referred to <small>'COLONIAL FIRE BRIGADES'</small>.
* The medals are issued with the details of the recipient inscribed on the rim.
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Decorations of the United Kingdom}}
[[Category:Civil awards and decorations of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Colonial Police Medal| ]]
[[Category:Law enforcement awards and honors]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1938]]
[[Category:1938 establishments in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Long and Meritorious Service Medals of Britain and the Commonwealth]]
[[Category:Courage awards]]
[[Category:Fire service awards and honors]]
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