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The modern police badge can trace it’s origin back to the Roman Empire. Roman ‘Centurions’ (enforcers of Rome’s Law within the empire) wore, as a symbol of their power, a small piece of armor known as a ‘breastplate.’ Over ages this breastplate became smaller in size but the authority of civil law that they represented remains the same.
