Catalogue description NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, NORFOLK COUNTY CONSTABULARY

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Reference: C/PO
Title: NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, NORFOLK COUNTY CONSTABULARY
Description:

Records of Police Divisions
Date: 1837-1967
Related material:

For further police material see county records list. (C/Saa 5)
Held by: Norfolk Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Norfolk County Council, Norfolk County Constabulary
Physical description: 59 files
Access conditions:

Documents Less than 30 years old are closed to public inspection.
Immediate source of acquisition:

Received by Norfolk Record Office on unknown date, numbered C/PO 1/1-58, and on 8 February 1995, numbered C/PO 1/59.
Subjects:
  • Norfolk
  • Local government
Administrative / biographical background:

The county police force had its origins in the Norfolk Rural Police, formed in 1839 under the adoptive County Police Act, 2-3 Vic. c. 93. Its complement, duties and distribution were revised at intervals during the 19th century and in 1889 responsibility for constabulary matters was transferred from the Justices of the Peace to the County Council on its creation. There seems, however, to be little trace of this change in the records, which have been listed without regard to the alteration in administration. By the Norfolk Joint Police (Amalgamation) Order 1967 the Norfolk Constabulary, Norwich City Police Force and Great Yarmouth Borough Police were combined in January 1968.
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