AFP Federal Police Protective Services Medal

The Australian Protective Service Medal wasestablished to recognise ten years of cumulative and diligent service as a member of the Australian Protective Service (APS) between October 20, 1984 (when the APS was created as a separate service from the AFP) to June 30, 2004 (when the APS was re-integrated into the AFP as AFP Uniform Protection) and who had left the APS prior to the latter date.  The latter condition ensured that a former APS member now serving with the AFP could not receive both the APS and AFP Service Medal.