Available only from Smith & Warren, Family Badges are miniature custom badges manufactured with the same care and workmanship as full-size badges. Family Badges may be ordered by themselves or ...

CLEVELAND (AP) - Police officers in Cleveland and others are permitted to give out brother badges -- half-size replicas of regular police badges -- to friends and family members as a token of respect.

And no end to collecting. David estimates that he has acquired 2,000 badges since he started amassing them in 1987. He has mini-badges from France (“some of the prettiest”) and Canada (“They ...