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Official blazon

Arms : Ermine, on a pale engrailed azure between two keys, wards downwards and outwards, a pen Or; on a chief gules a lion passant guardant erminois.
Crest: On a wreath argent and azure, Upon a key fessewise, wards downwards to the sinister, Or a Secretary bird proper.
Supporters: On either side a lion guardant Or charged on the shoulder with an escutcheon gules, thereon a rose gold barbed and seeded proper.
Motto: Semper vigilans rege adjuvante

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on January 9, 1928.

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