- Condition: MNH(**)
- Year: 2006
- Catalogue: Scott
- Number(s): 4886
- Catalog value: 7,25 $
- Size: 94x94 mm
- Categories: Various, Maps, Police, Uniforms
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10 YEARS SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE
ROMANIAN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLICE
ASSOCIATION
On the occasion of the 27th Conference of the International
Executive Council of the International Police Association (I.P.A.),
held in October 1996 at Brisbane – Australia, it was decided
to affiliate the Romanian Division to the Association.
After a decade from this event, Romfilatelia, the specialized
company in issuing and trading Romanian postage stamps, introduces
into circulation the philatelic issue 10 YEARS SINCE THE FOUNDATION
OF THE ROMANIAN DIVISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLICE
ASSOCIATION.
Its founder, Arthur Troop, was a police sergeant who worked
within the British Police, in a little town called Lincolnshire.
After the Second World War, he thought to found an association,
based on friendship and mutual aid relationships between policemen
from all over the world. The policemen from Great Britain, Denmark,
Norway, Sweden, but also from some African countries were happy
about the idea of founding an international police association,
with national divisions, with the same logo and the same
status.
Consequently, on the 1st of January 1950, the I.P.A.
(International Police Association) – Great Britain Division
was founded, and its first member was, in fact, its very founder
– Arthur Troop. The first motto of the association was
“Service through friendship”, which best expressed the
purpose and aims of the association, but which could only be
understood by speakers of the English language. To overcome this
obstacle, they called an Esperanto expert, Bob Hamilton. He
translated the motto into this language and, ever since,
“SERVO PER AMIKECO” has been the official motto of the
association. On this occasion, it was decided that all members
should pay a subscription fee, that the own magazine of the
association should be printed, and that a suggestive logo should be
chosen.
The I.P.A. logo, conceived by Arthur Troop himself and touched
up by a specialized designer, reunites familiar symbols: the star
on the policeman’s cap, the Earth, the laurels as a symbol of
peace together with the words “Servo per amikeco”. A
year later, the emergence of the status of the association added to
this action.
In 1955 – between the 16th and the 17th of September
– took place, in Paris, in the North Railway Station
building, the first International Congress of the I.P.A.. The first
general secretary of the association was Arthur Troop who
maintained this position until 1967, when he withdrew, remaining
just a founding member.
Open to policemen from all over the world, regardless of their
race, rank, gender, religion and language, the International Police
Association has become the most important international
organization of profile in the world, having national divisions in
more than 80 countries. The purposes and aims of this association
are the following:
- favor personal and family meetings, by means of visits or
correspondence, which are meant to entail the installation,
maintaining and development of a friendship and cooperation climate
between all I.P.A. members;
- organize exchanges of experience and information meant to
fight against criminality and delinquency;
- promote the organization of conferences, seminars, work
sessions on specific themes to police activities;
- promote respect for the law, order and human rights;
- promote honesty and fair-play, mutual respect and mutual
aid;
- permanently raise the prestige of police and improve
relationships between the members of the association and the civil
society.
The International Police Association – Romanian Division
is a non-profit governmental organization that operates according
to the provisions of the I.P.A. International Statute and of the
Romanian legislation. The organization is based on the free
association and is made up of active or reserve officers of the
Ministry of Administration and Interior, policemen, gendarmes, but
also students and teachers from the Police Academy. The Romanian
Division is organized according to the principle of territoriality,
i.e. a central organization, with registered headquarters in
Bucharest and regions attached to the County Police Inspectorates
and other divisions of the Ministry of Administration and
Interior.
The perforated miniature sheet of the issue includes the postage
stamp that presents the ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza, in whose time
emerged the first organized forms of the Romanian police, next to
the international logo of the I.P.A. and includes the words I.P.A.
Romanian Division, as well as the years 1996 - 2006.
The face value of the postage stamp is of RON 8.70.
The philatelic issue was accomplished with the help of ROMPRES
(the image of Alexandru Ioan Cuza) and with the help of the
International Police Association (I.P.A.) - Romanian Division (the
image of the label).
TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Stamp size: 94 x 94 mm (stamp size 33 x 48 mm)
Printing system: offset, in 4 colours, on chromo paper (UK
origin)
Number of colours: 4 colours
Face Value: 8.70 RON; 87,000 ROL
TOTAL: 11,000 perforated souvenir sheets (11,000 stamps)
Issue date: 07.10.2006
First Day Covers: 550 pcs. equipped with the perforated
miniature sheet, numbered and cancelled with „the first
day“ post mark of the issue.
Designer: Alexandra ANGHELACHE
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