Then happy non combatant officers can sport a row of three like any police/fire/ambulanceman.
.....and there were those of us who didn't bother. I probably wore mine once or twice......then when a member of public made an assumption I must have done something incredibly brave........I took them straight off because I felt a fraud........never wore them again. I only ever knew one person who was refused his on the grounds that he'd pressed his bare a*se cheeks against a window at a retirement function when the then Divisional Commander took to the stage. There were those who did far worse and got them. Just struck me as slightly pointless.