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Catalogue description POLICE (BRISTOL CONSTABULARY)
This record is held by Bristol Archives
| Reference: | BCC/D/POL |
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| Title: | POLICE (BRISTOL CONSTABULARY) |
| Description: |
Records of Bristol Constabulary, 1836-1974 and Avon & Somerset Constabulary, 1974 to date. ADMINISTRATION Minutes Watch Committee minutes Watch Committee sub-committee minutes Officers' conferences Reports Watch Committee reports Chief Constable's reports Annual Reports on Establishment and Crime Reports to Brewster Sessions Road Accident Reports Statistics and Circulars Home Office Circulars Home Office Notices Returns of staff Inspections H M Inspector of Constabulary Watch Committee Inspections Reviews and Parades Working Parties Amalgamation Working Party Operational practices Liaison Groups Council for Racial Equality Community Liaison Bye-laws and Local Acts General bye-laws Docks bye-laws Transport bye-laws Corporation Acts Notices Rules and Orders MANAGEMENT Staff Registers of officers Registers of constables Registers of cadets Registers of conduct Special Constables and Reservists Applications Medical Officers' Reports Registers of service reservists Disciplinary records Oaths Retirement and resignations Pay and salary records Pension records Gallantry awards and police medals Roll of Honour Civic awards Ambulance team and life-saving Benevolent Fund Sports Clubs Band Constabulary club Police Federation Personal papers Uniforms Correspondence Letters Cards Journals and Notebooks Diaries Telephone messages Records of constables entering stations Duty books Notebooks Beat cards Warrant Cards Instructions and Orders Instructions Standing Orders General Orders Force Orders Daily Orders Operation Orders Special Operations Station regulations Disturbances Stock and Purchasing Inventories Goods Inward Received Stations Pillars and Boxes Horse Register Motor Vehicles Clothing FINANCE Financial Records Vouchers Accounts Cash books CIVIL DEFENCE Duties and instructions Casualties National Registration Air Raid Precautions Billeting Service personnel Printed Material Miscellaneous CRIMINAL ADMINISTRATION Occurrence books Crime Report Register Cases Offences Station Journals Information books Charges Motoring offences Statutes and charges Warrants and summonses Warrants Registers of warrants Notice books and Police Gazettes Summons books Summonses Prisoners and convicted persons Tried prisoners Prisoners' books Receipts for prisoners' goods Registers of persons reporting Licences to be at large CIVIL ADMINISTRATION Inquests Registers of Inquests Jurors' records Case notes Licensing Applications for licences Registers of licensed premises, A Division Registers of licensed premises, C Division Registers of beerhouse keepers Public and beerhouse complaints, A Division CIVIL ADMINISTRATION Public and beerhouse complaints, B Division Public and beerhouse complaints, C Division Public and beerhouse complaints, D Division Public and beerhouse complaints,H Division Beerhouse offences Pedlars' and street traders' licences Entertainment licences Applications for licences for film shows Hackney carriage licences Dog Registers Lost and stolen property Lost children Aliens Committal of Mental Defectives Keys OTHER RECORDS Printed Material Police Newspapers and Journals Newsbeat (Journal of the Avon and Somerset Constabulary) Instruction Manuals Reports Official openings Services Newscuttings Books of reference Stations of Units 'Wel-Com' (magazine of Bristol Constabulary Comrades' Association) Photographs and Films Portraits and groups Visitors Incidents and Operations Parades and Inspections Demonstrations Publicity photographs Street scenes Sports and Social Clubs Films Outsize Photographs Miscellaneous Plans Area plans Administrative plans Operational plans Kings Weston House plans Building plans Historical Material History of Bristol Constabulary Notes and notices Kings Weston House Histories of other forces Booklets (non-police) Pictures Miscellaneous Documents Museum Artefacts |
| Held by: | Bristol Archives, not available at The National Archives |
| Former reference in its original department: | 34908 |
| Language: | English |
| Access conditions: |
Please note that the records of Bristol Constabulary are closed for 30 years from the date of the final entry in the record |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Following a report of the Watch Committee, Bristol Constabulary was founded on 1836 Jun 25, dividing the city into 4 divisions. The head of the force was Mr Joseph Bishop, who died in 1838. He was replaced by Lieut Henry Fisher, R N, the only non-professional policeman to head the Bristol force. Over the course of the next century the force became increasingly specialised, and developed several branches: 1842 Water Police 1876 Fire Brigade 1880 Detective Staff (Detectives first employed in 1846; the name of the branch changed to Criminal investigation Department in 1920) 1898 Mounted Police 1920 Women Police Division 1931 Motorised patrols In 1974 the force was re-organised, and along with Somerset and Bath Constabulary formed Avon and Somerset Constabulary. A printed Historical Review of Bristol Constabulary (see BCC/D/Pol/HM/1/4) was written at the time of the merger, and many of the records in this collection would appear to have been collected during the compilation of this publication. A further source of records would seem to have been the force museum. For further details on the history of Bristol Constabulary, see the following: Bristol City Police, 1836-1936 (1936) BCC/D/Pol/HM/1/3 A Historical Review of the Bristol Constabulary (1974) BCC/D/Pol/HM/1/5 in this catalogue and The Police : a brief History (1980s) BCC/D/Pol/HM/1/5 in this catalogue and Establishment of the Bristol Police Force, by R Walters (1975) BRO ref: HA pamphlet 36 and Police in late Victorian Bristol, by Brian Howell (1989) BRO ref: HA pamphlet 7] obtainable from Bristol Record Office Related material at Bristol Record Office includes: Watch Committee minutes, 1831-1832, 1836-1960 Watch Committee sub-committees minutes, 1906-1967 (see Guide to Bristol Archives Office, E.Ralph, page 14 for details) |
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