Police warrant cards by country
The card a plain-clothes officer or a federal agent shows at the door: his name, rank and service.
Bearer prints it for 2 offices: United Kingdom, United States. Each is read off a document of the time or reconstructed on the country's law, and says which.
Bearer makes an investigator's papers for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: the passport a consul would have filled in, with the visas and frontier stamps a campaign leaves in it, and the permits, certificates and tickets of the period, to print or to share.
An example
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Every office Bearer prints it for
| Office | Offered from | Until | How it is known | Printed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 21 October 1920 | reconstructed on the law | English | |
| United States | 16 January 1920 | 30 June 1930 | read off a document of the period | English |
Each version in full
Sources
- Wikipedia, Warrant card, that a warrant card is proof of identification and authority carried by police constables, its text saying that the holder is granted authority by a named official; nothing about the cards before 1940 (secondary source)
- Wikimedia Commons (public domain), Identification card of Federal Prohibition Agent Isidor Einstein, New York, 1 April 1920 (Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, No. 6915), top leaf: PHOTOGRAPH, two photographs, full face and profile, under the Treasury's embossed seal; bottom leaf: DATE …, the number in red, THE UNITED STATES / TREASURY DEPARTMENT / INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, THIS CERTIFIES THAT … OF … IS DULY EMPLOYED AS A (Federal Prohibition Agent) AND IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO EXECUTE AND PERFORM ALL THE DUTIES DELEGATED TO SUCH OFFICERS BY LAW. Countersigned … Federal Prohibition Commissioner; … Commissioner of Internal Revenue. THIS COMMISSION IS VOID IF PHOTOGRAPH OF BEARER DOES NOT APPEAR ABOVE. (read directly)
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