VERY SCARCE - FULL SIZE SOUTH WEST AFRICA POLICE STAR FOR IN SOUTH AFRICA

Very Scarce FULL SIZE 59mm x 43mm -South West Africa Police Star for Faithful Service (in Afrikaans) - 1981 to 1989. A white metal medal of six-lobed shape, with integral inverted triangular ribbon bar; the face with a radiant sun above a desert scene, a Welwitschia plant in the foreground; the reverse plain.The Star was one of a number of awards instituted in December 1981 after the South West Africa Police was reinstated as a separate organisation in April of that year and was awarded for twenty years’ service. It became obsolete when South Africa handed over control of the territory to the United Nations in April 1989.