Making a file to cut a badge

as requested on support…

I have been working on this sign for several hours and I can not get the vectors to close on the one part. I have add extensions on them can to tell what I am doing wrong?

I am trying to copy this picture so I can cut it out for a police officer

and the file:

Searching a bit we find:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=728290756064914&set=a.232564032304258&type=3&from_lookaside=1

which we import to the background:

Done

We then select and ungroup:

For regions which are fully described, select the geometry surrounding it:

and copy-paste in place to duplicate:

Then draw in geometry to define the perimeter areas:

Done

shift-click on the geometry which needs to be trimmed to add it to the selection:

and use Trim Vectors:

to remove the geometry which extends beyond the desired extent for a given region:

OK

Select the balance of the geometry for the region in question:

and shift-click to remove the geometry which was used for trimming:

then use Join Vectors to close:

Yes

Repeat for each other region.

Arriving at:

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