Crest
The current crest of the force was adopted in 1997 to replace most of the colonial symbols:
- St Edward's Crown replace with Bauhinia
- Laurel wreath is added to replace the colonial Brunswick star
- Motto changed from "Customs Hong Kong to Hong Kong Customs and Excise 香港海關
- Badge theme added with key and sword to replace the words "香港海關"
Source: Customs and Excise Department
Read more about this topic: Customs And Excise Department (Hong Kong)
Famous quotes containing the word crest:
“What shall he have that killed the deer?
His leather skin and horns to wear.
Then sing him home.
Take thou no scorn to wear the horn,
It was a crest ere thou wast born;
Thy father’s father wore it,
And thy father bore it.
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)