Props - Police Identification Badge

In preparation for filming, we had to find all of the props that we would be needing, along with costumes. An issue that arose was the badges we would be needing for our Family Liaison Police Officers. We realised that something like this would be necessary so that our audience were aware who they were, however finding badges proved to be very difficult.



We planned to find an image online of a mock police badge (used for costume purposes only) and edit the photographs online so that our actors were depicted. However, when searching for one of these cards, it was near enough impossble to find a British ID Card from the police force for security reasons. There were any American cards available, but these would not really fit into our storyline due to the UK setting. We realised that we would have to either make our own from scratch, or use whatever we could find to work with.

When it came to filming the scene with our police officers, we settled for a small black wallet with a driving licence positioned inside. We realised that from the distance of our filming, it would not be clear that this was what we had used and therefore this could easily pass as a form of police identification.