International Police Association
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The International Police Association (IPA) is the largest organisation for police officers in the world.
The founder Arthur Troop (1915–2000), a police sergeant, was born in Lincoln, in the English county of Lincolnshire
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The association was founded on 1 January 1950 under the Esperanto
motto Servo per Amikeco (Service through Friendship) to create friendly links and encourage cooperation between individual police officers around the world.
It now has about 400,000 members and sections in 63 countries.
The main offices of the organization (IAC)are at Nottingham.
The founder Arthur Troop (1915–2000), a police sergeant, was born in Lincoln, in the English county of Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
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The association was founded on 1 January 1950 under the Esperanto
Esperanto
is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...
motto Servo per Amikeco (Service through Friendship) to create friendly links and encourage cooperation between individual police officers around the world.
It now has about 400,000 members and sections in 63 countries.
The main offices of the organization (IAC)are at Nottingham.