Water protection police cap eagle?

[MarcoPennisi]

Marco, don't you think those Eagles would have been gold colored 1st models with laurel leaf wreaths? After all, the Gend Motor Bereitschaften were the FJK with the gold police Eagles.

After the incorporation of the FJK into the Prussian SchuPo as motorisierte Strassenpolizei on Apr 1, 1935 , sure the 1st pattern or M34 cap eagle was used.
After motorisierte Strassenpolizei was taken into the Gendarmerie on Apr 1, 1936 and became Gendarmerie-Bereitschaften , its uniform and insignia were instructed by the 25 June 1936 regulations (RdErl. d. RuPrMdI v. 25.6.1936 - III M 100 Nr. 56/36 Anlage "B" )which prescribed that the eagle for the visor cap was to be that of the other major OrPo branches in a matt yellow (ie gold) metal, so the 2nd pattern or M36 cap eagle.
Most period photos date to the 1935/1936 period, with the likely purpose of propaganda at a time when highways started being built and inaugurated, a much idealized pride of Hitler’s Germany provided with its own police surveillance. These pics show the 1st pattern or M34 cap eagle being worn.
But a few photos of the 1936/1937 exist ( see one in http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/guide-...adgear-496533/ , for example) which show the 2nd pattern or M36 cp eagle being worn.
It’s not by chance that I have written Gend. – Bereitschaften in 1936/1937.
MP