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Look at British Transport Police website which contains information on historical resource.

See the British Transport Police website for further details and an email address for enquiries on this material. The British Transport Police hold several thousand ‘staff record cards’ going back as far as the 1860s, although they are by no means complete. The Police History Society can give general advice to researchers. This guide was published in 1991 and some information will be out of date. Other resourcesīrowse the National Police Officers Roll of Honour for details of 4,000 UK police officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty.Ĭonsult the Police archives guide, one of the useful resources on the International Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice pages of the Open University. You can search our catalogue within CO, DO or FO using keywords such as “railway police”. Their records have the departmental codes CO, DO and FO respectively. Other records on railway policing overseas were created by the Colonial Office, Dominions Office and Foreign Office.

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You can search our catalogue within the department code FO with keyword phrases such as: They were part of the Foreign Office and their records have the department code FO. The Control Office for Germany and Austria and the Control Commission for Germany (British Element) were responsible for transport in the occupied territories after the war. Records of the forces may well have been deposited in the archives of the country to which they relate. They are held at the London Metropolitan Archives.

These list every member of the force since warrant numbers were introduced in 1832, together with personal files on 95% of officers who have served since that date. The City of London Police registers (1832 onwards)Ĭonsult registers of The City of London Police. Search for contact details using our Find an archive tool. Contact the local police force itself for their records or try the respective county or city archive. Not all police staff records have survived. Surviving records of local police forces are not public records and are held either by local archives or the respective police force itself. Provincial police forces in England and Wales did not begin in incorporated boroughs until after the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835, and elsewhere until after the County Police Act of 1839. Before that policing was carried out by locally employed watchmen, constables and magistrates.įor all other police records, other than the London Metropolitan Police and the Royal Irish Constabulary you will need to go to other archives and organisations. The first modern police force in England was the Metropolitan Police Force, created in 1829.

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The National Archives has administrative records relating to the Railway and Transport Police, but not records relating to its investigation of crime. To access the records held here you will either need to visit us, pay for research ( £) or, where you can identify a specific record reference, order a copy ( £).Īmong the records that we hold are the following (click on the references to search the respective series with keywords): In 1958 the London Transport Police was absorbed into the British Transport Police. In 1949 the British Transport Commission Police was created, incorporating the old four railway police forces as well as several minor canal and dock forces. After the war the railways were nationalised and a national railway police force was established. London and North Eastern Railway Company (LNER)ĭuring the Second World War the railways were run by the Railway Executive Committee, under which was the Police Committee made up of the four Chiefs of Police.London Midland and Scottish Railway Company (LMS).You will therefore find their records amongst the railway staff records for each separate company. Following the Railways Act 1921 , and prior to nationalisation, the four largest railway companies had their own police force controlled by a Chief of Police. From as early as 1826 men were employed as Policemen on the railways but their role was to ‘police’ or direct the trains, like a Signalman, ensuring they were on the right lines. The first railway police force in Britain was formed in 1830. A specific police force for transport began with the railways.

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