Catalogue description Palestine Police Personnel Files

Details of Subseries within CO 733
Reference: Subseries within CO 733
Title: Palestine Police Personnel Files
Description:

These files contain service records, other documents and papers concerning police officers recruited to the Palestine Police Force, both UK recruited and locally recruited, during the British Administration of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and Transjordan, 1920 to 1948. They include personal information, but also include specific details of health, welfare concerns and incidents of action and bravery. Some files include papers dated later than 1948.

Date: 1923-2004
Arrangement:

The records appear to have been arranged alphabetically by surname when in operational use. This sequence has been disrupted during subsequent custody and it was deemed impractical to restore it when the records were prepared for transfer to The National Archives.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2024 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Custodial history: The records were created by the British Administration of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and Transjordan in Jerusalem between 1920 and 1948. At the end of the British Mandate in 1948, the records returned to the UK and came into the custody of Crown Agents as they were responsible for calculating pensions and paying pensions to any eligible officers both in the UK and overseas. Around 1964 the Ministry for Overseas Development over the responsibility for calculating and paying pensions to former colonial and the records came into the custody of its Pensions Department later Overseas Pensions Department. In 2002, when the records were no longer required for administrative purposes, they were transferred to the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol. When the museum closed in 2012, the Department for International Development took custody of the records. In September 2020, it merged into the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Palestine Police formed part of the British Administration of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and Transjordan during the period 1920 to 1948.

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