| Description | The Staffordshire Police Museum collected a large number of files of original documents, printed extracts and photocopies. There is a catalogue in number order (C/PC/12/19/2/2) and a subject index (C/PC/12/19/2/1). The majority of the files are not itemised in this catalogue, (for exceptions see below). Subjects covered in the subject index are as follows
1. The Museum
2. Chief Constables, Senior Officers and Sir Robert Peel
3. Individual Officers
4. Special Constabulary;
5. Police history: national and general
6. Police history: Staffordshire Police
7. Police history: Stoke on Trent City Police
8. Police history: Hanley Borough Police, Newcastle under Lyme Borough Police and Lichfield City Police
9. Acts and regulations
10. Police equipment
11. Police training and instructions
12. Police buildings
13. Explosions and explosives
14. Murders and attempted murders
15. Traffic and motorways
16. Railway accidents
17. Foreign visits and ethnic matters
18. Incidents
19. Hospital Watch, crime prevention and Neighbourhood Watch
20. Industrial disputes
21. Heritage days, open days and sports days
22. Home Office
23. Royal visits, VIPs, parades and reviews
24. SPACE programme
25. Offensive weapons
26. Women police officers
27. Nominal rolls
30. Medals
31. Police pay and pensions
32. Courts
33. Sport general
34. Police welfare and Federation
Some of the files contained original records from Police HQ and from Police Stations. Where these have been extracted, the original Police Museum reference number has been noted in the catalogue descriptions. |