Ich habe mich immer gefragt, warum das Logo für die Polizei … eine Flamme ist.
https://i.redd.it/yaeb6sap1tve1.jpeg
Von Main-Touch9617
Ich habe mich immer gefragt, warum das Logo für die Polizei … eine Flamme ist.
https://i.redd.it/yaeb6sap1tve1.jpeg
Von Main-Touch9617
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Some might say it’s a held up hand. Like when a cop is managing traffic at a crossroads.
But it’s a poorly designed logo indeed.
I think it’s ambiguous on purpose with the flame / hand
Because it symbolises protection and veille, in the same way a fire would protect and permit you to see the dark.
Explanation from their website:
[https://www.politie.be/5439/over-ons/visuele-identiteit/logo-van-de-politie](https://www.politie.be/5439/over-ons/visuele-identiteit/logo-van-de-politie)
Might be a reference that in medieval cities guards would patrol in the night with torches and they are the predecessors of a police force as we know it…. But that’s reaching a bit.
It’s a dude with a limp dick dancing with a woman that is trying to not touch it and now you can’t unsee it.
https://preview.redd.it/faza8wmh3tve1.jpeg?width=712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97da4995385f26302cf38bb9672eb19cd654b95d
Sommigen zien er de hitlergroet in.
That’s a crab claw
Coming from abroad, the plain white vans with the flame logo always reminded me of someone who would install a gas stove or like fix your pipes or something. The orange hi-vis uniforms don’t help.
The Dutch word for ‚pilot light‘ being a ‚waakvlam‘, or ‚guarding flame‘ as in, the police safeguarding the nation
Bring back the gendarmerie logo
Because it was derived from [that of the old Gendarmerie/Rijswacht](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie_(Belgique)#Logo). And because historically, gendarmeries evolved from the military corps of grenadiers, and their insignia often include [a grenade with a lighted fuse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenade_(insignia)). The flame in the Belgian police’s logo is the last remnant of that fuse.
Aside from the correct answers already given, it probable also stems from the logo of Gendarmerie:
https://preview.redd.it/4q625kke4tve1.png?width=200&format=png&auto=webp&s=08483e6585d26c513ceb92baa414d81d33284412
In the wake of the Dutroux case, the Belgian police was reformed. Rijkswacht and Gemeentelijke politiediensten merged together. (But also split up again, in Lokale politie and Federale Politie)
So it’s not all too surprising that part of the logo(s) was reused.
Comes from the Gendarmerie/ Rijkswacht, used to be grenade and flame.
Just like French Gendarmerie Nationale. Means security and vigilance.
But we „dropped the grenade“ after the reforms, to look more friendly I guess?
https://preview.redd.it/72afi9fu4tve1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a3dd63625642b0843635115e6b53c9ed10482861
De waakvlam?
