Hawaiian Police Badges

Honolulu Police badge #28 with crossed paddles ( King’s Authority). Sterling silver with hard fired black enamel. Circa 1865, Kingdom of Hawaii.

The original Hawaiian flag. The coat of arms comprises the royal standard kahili. This kahili is actually crossed through two paddles that are thought to characterize Kamehameha’s Kanawai Mamalahoe i.e. the Splintered Paddle Law plus the adventurous voyage traditions concerning the Hawaiians. Hawaii is the only Kingdom to become a U. S. State.

Captain Kauai Police badge #1, sterling with hard fired black enamel and hand engraved, circa 1880, Kingdom of Hawaii.

Honolulu Police badge #33, sterling with hard fired black enamel and hand engraved. Circa 1870, Kingdom of Hawaii..

Honolulu Police badge #50, sterling with hard fired black enamel and hand engraved. Made by Ed Jones Oakland, CAL. Circa 1925.

Captain Koloa Kauai Police badge, sterling with hard fired black enamel, circa 1924. Worn by Medeiros Antone.

Kauai 17 Police badge, circa 1890, Kingdom of Hawaii, sterling silver.

Deputy High Sheriff badge No. 15 Territory of Hawaii. Hallmarked DB (Dawkins Benny).

Investigator Public Prosecutor City & County of Honolulu Territory of Hawaii badge hallmarked Deputy High Sheriff badge No. 15 Territory of Hawaii. Hallmarked DB (Dawkins Benny).

Detective County of Hawaii, reverse is stamped STERLING. Circa 1920, Territory of Hawaii.

Oahu Sheriff Crown badge made of 14k and 18k gold, circa 1860, Kingdom of Hawaii.

Commissioner of Police badge for the Island of Hawaii, circa 1928.
Territory of Hawaii.

Hawaii Board of Health Badges

In the Hawaii State Archives, the records relating to Hansen’s Disease in the Department of Health, Communicable Disease Division date from 1866. By 1905, 5,800 people had been isolated at Kalaupapa, on Molokai. Joseph de Veuster or Father Damien, the Belgian priest, born in 1840 at Tremeloo, near Mechlin, volunteered to go to Kalawao, Molokai, in May 1873. He found more than eight hundred people living in the settlement in the most rudimentary and dispiriting conditions. He worked tirelessly to improve the colony, to provide adequate shelter for the people, and to represent their needs to the parsimonious Board of Health.

Board of Health Territory of Hawaii badge made of sterling silver.
Private Collection.

Hawaii, Member Board of Health badge made of sterling silver and hand engraved.
Private Collection.

Honolulu Fire Dept Police circa 1850's. Kingdom of Hawaii.

Thanks to Gregory Hunt, Hawaiian Historian, for the following information:

In 1850 Kamehameha III founded the Honolulu Fire Department. H.F.D. stands for the Honolulu Fire Department. Since the police under the kingdom was already operational, the initial job of arson investigation came under the purview of the Hawaii Kindgom Marshal. Usually his designee Sheriff of the district or his deputy sheriff handled these types of crimes up until the formation of the Honolulu Fire Department. Your badge is one of two badges, one calling the operation HPD/HFD and the other as you show. These individuals were police and fire that handled the arson investigations during the Kingdom (1850-1893). These badges had only a short history as the fire department and police wished to remain autonomous. The specific time frame appears to be (1850’s only). The first kingdom police badges were the Marshal, Sheriff, and Deputy Sheriff. The officers badges were octagons. Gregory Hunt.

Kingdom of Hawaii Badges 1795-January 17,1893

This badge would have been worn by a Sheriff’s Lieutenant on the big island of Hawaii.
Made by Dawkins Benny, circa 1923, Territory of Hawaii.

Honolulu Police badge #17 with crossed paddles ( King’s Authority). Sterling silver with hard fired black enamel. Circa 1860, Kingdom of Hawaii.

Territory of Hawaii Badges 1900-1959

Kauai Chief Police, sterling and hand engraved badge,
Kingdom of Hawaii, circa 1890.

Special Police badge #6 Honolulu. Sterling silver with hard fired black enamel. Circa 1900, Territory of Hawaii.

Honolulu Police badge #673. Sterling silver with hard fired black enamel. Hallmarked Dawkins Benny Honolulu. Circa 1930 to March 1952. Territory of Hawaii.

Police badge #35 Kauai. Sterling silver with hard fired black enamel. Circa 1900.

Hawaiian Detective Bureau. Sterling silver with hard fired black enamel. Circa 1900.

Maui Police badge, circa 1890 worn by J. Kealoha who was stationed in Waihee. Kingdom of Hawaii.

Island of Hawaii

Honolulu Advertiser March 11, 1952

Honolulu Star Bulletin January 25, 1934

Honolulu Star Bulletin February 1, 1934

Hawaii Tribune-Herald Hilo, Hawaii August 8, 1924

Honolulu Advertiser September 16, 1950

Back of Emergency Honolulu Police badge #328 made by Ed Jones & Co. Oakland, CAL STERLING and dated on the right bottom point 1, 1, 34.

Emergency Honolulu Police badge #328 made in sterling by Ed Jones & Co. Oakland, CAL and dated on the
right bottom point 1, 1, 34. Matching hat badge below.

Kauai Captain Police, sterling and hand engraved badge,
Kingdom of Hawaii, circa 1890.

The Hawaiian Star September 2, 1893

The Provisional Government of Hawaiiwas proclaimed after the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893, by the 13-member Committee of Safety under the leadership of its chairman Henry E. Cooper and former judge Sanford B. Dole as the designated President of Hawaii. It replaced the Kingdom of Hawaii after the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani as a provisional government until the Republic of Hawaii was established on
July 4, 1894.

The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 30, 1900, until August 21, 1959, when most of its territory, excluding Palmyra Island, was admitted to the United States as the 50th U.S. state, the State of Hawaii.Wikipedia

The Hawaiian Kingdom, or Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, was a sovereign state located in the Hawaiian Islands. The country was formed in 1795, when the warrior chief Kamehameha the Great, of the independent island of Hawaiʻi, conquered the independent islands of Oʻahu, Maui, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi and unified them under one government. Wikipedia