Catalogue description Home Office: Directorate of Telecommunications (DT Symbol) Series: Files

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Details of HO 523
Reference: HO 523
Title: Home Office: Directorate of Telecommunications (DT Symbol) Series: Files
Description:

This series contains files of the Home Office Directorate of Telecommunications (DT Symbol).
Date: 1980-1993
Related material:

See also HO 341
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: DT Symbol
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Home Office, Directorate of Telecommunications, 1969-
Physical description: 18 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2014 Home Office
Selection and destruction information: Records on use of frequencies for civil emergencies, war planning and policy and principle records on privatisation will be selected. General allocation of frequencies, staff side records and transactional records of the privatisation will not be selected for permanent preservation. Selection decisions on many of these files can be made at a thematic level. However, some themes give insufficient information for a decision to be made and will be reviewed file by file.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

Directorate of Telecommunications was responsible for the planning, development, procurement, installation and maintenance of communications systems for the emergency services. Responsibility passed to the Police Information Technology Organisation in 1998 and then in 2007 to the National Police Improvement Agency. In 2012 all its functions were transferred to the Home Office, Serious Organised Crime Agency and the College of Policing.

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