Catalogue description Home Office: Queen's Peace (QPE Symbol Series) Files

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Details of HO 325
Reference: HO 325
Title: Home Office: Queen's Peace (QPE Symbol Series) Files
Description:

Files from the Home Office QPE (Queen's Peace) symbol series, concerning the maintenance of public order, the control of disturbances and the organisation of procedures to deal with civil emergencies, including civil defence measures.

Date: 1944-1998
Arrangement:

The pieces are arranged in numerical order by departmental file number. The inclusion of a date before a file number, as in QPE (1962) 5/4/1 indicates that the year in which the file was created was included in the file reference number. Thus the full departmental reference of a file listed as QPE (1962) 5/4/1 would be QPE/62 5/4/1.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: QPE Symbol file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 914 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1990 Home Office

Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The QPE series deals mainly with the role of the Home Office in conjunction with the Security Services in the maintenance of public order through monitoring the activities of extremist, subversive or racist organisations. It is also concerned with procedures for countering civil unrest and dealing with emergencies on a regional and national basis. Various F Divisions of the Home Office were responsible for and contributed to these files.

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