Catalogue description Home Office: Police, War Emergency Matters (WEM Symbol Series) Files
Reference: | HO 353 |
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Title: | Home Office: Police, War Emergency Matters (WEM Symbol Series) Files |
Description: |
Files from the Home Office WEM (War Emergency Matters) symbol series, dealing with police involvement in civil defence arrangements and war planning. |
Date: | 1947-1986 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | WEM Symbol file series |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 114 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1989 Home Office |
Accruals: | Series is accruing. |
Administrative / biographical background: |
From 1947, responsibilities for the matters dealt with in this series lay with various 'F' Divisions in the Home Office Police Department. In 1970, the responsibilities were assumed by F6 Division: that Division became part of the Fire and Emergency Planning Department in 1984, and in July 1989 was re-named EP Division. |
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