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West Mercia Police

Hindlip
Hallindlip
Worcester, WR3 8SP
Tel (0905) 27188

Worcestershire Constabulary and West Mercia Police. Administration and Finance.

1. Monthly Disposition Books. Worcestershire Constabulary. 3 vols

1857-1894

2. Industrial Disputes.

Worcestershire Constabulary Files. (i) 1916-1949

(ii) 1920-1921 (iii) 1926 3 vols

3. Home Office Correspondence. 1920-1933

4. Home Office Files. (i) 1926 (ii) 1970

5. Agreement Between Dudley Police and Worcester Constabulary.

1929

6. Fines and Fees.

Pershore.

1934-1958
7. Police Station Account Book.

Anon.

1935-1958

8. Chief Constable's Notes and Crime Returns.

Undated.

9. Property Rented by Police. 1935

10. Dangerous Drugs. Returns and Papers. (i) 1956-1980 (ii) 1953-1979

11. Record of Police Stations and Houses. 1959

12. Aliens Orders.

2 vols

(i) 1959-1979 (ii) 1962-1979

13. Aliens Orders - Home Office Review. 1966

14. Sudden Deaths.

Reports and Correspondence.

1962-1969 15. Pedlars Certificate.

Shropshire.

1965

16. Location of Officers.

Much Wenlock.

1967

17. West Mercia:country-region> Internal Organisation Reports.

22 vols

1967-1980

18. Administration Procedure Major Investigation.

West Mercia Constabulary.

19. No Action Returns. 1970-1971

20. Motor Fuel Rationing.
1973

21. Major Incident Log Book. 1973

Crime.

22. Charge Books.

(i) Upton on Severn. 2 vols

1840-1858

(iii) Stourport. 1929-1934

23. Arrest Book.

Bromsgrove and Droitwich Division. 1860-1870

24. Petty Sessions Case Books. (i)Tenbury. 4 vols 1876-1918

(ii) Worcester Division. 4 vols

1923-1938 (iv) Pershore. 6 vols

1899-1937

(v) Stourport. 1902-1914 (vi) Redditch. 2 vols

1884-1904

(vii) Stourbridge. 4 vols

1918-1939 (viii) Oldbury. 1900-1901

(ix) Great Witley. Undated.

25. Petty Sessions Antecedents Book. Pershaw. c 1900

26. Petty Sessions Minute Book. Tenbury. 1860-1867

27. Petty Sessions Summary Jurisdiction. Droitwich. 1914-1919

28. Petty Sessions Record of Appearances. (i) Malvern. 1867-1868 (ii) Redditch. 1908-1912

29. Crime Books.

(i) Evesham. 1886-1893 (ii) Weobley. 1896-1938

30. Criminal Business.

(i) Hundred House Police Station. 1896-1930

(ii) Tenbury Wells Police Station. 1878-1904

(iii) Malvern Police Station. 2 vols

1919-1934 1924-1932

(iv) Pershaw Police Station. 6 vols

1878-1891 1878-1898 1903-1921 1923-1933 1933-1938 1938-1940

(v) Stourport Police Station. 1878-1916

31. Prisoners Property Book. (i) Pershore. 1918-1934 (ii) Tenbury. 1930-1955

(iii) Hundred House. 1909

(iv) Unknown. 1934-1953

32. Crime Returns Folder. 1920-1930

33. Register of Warrants. Pershore. 1933-1934

34. Criminal Records.

(i) Bernard Mullins. 1938

(ii) Oswald Goodbeer. 1938

(iii) G.T. Royce. 1939

(iv) Joseph Clark. 1947

(v) Iris Hodgkins. 1947

(vi) Harry Lawrence. 1949

(vii) D.R. Haumer. 1953

35. Sabotage and Arson. 1940

36. Juvenile Delinquency File. (i) 1940-1946 (ii) 1954

37. Crime Complaints Books.

(i) Tenbury Wells Police Station. 6 vols (incomplete) 1941-1955

(ii) Oswestry Police Station. 1944-1946

(iii) Pershore Police Station. 1944-1945

(iv) Powick Police Station. 10 vols (incomplete) 1943-1968

(v) Rochford Police Station. 1941-1952

38. Thefts in Force Area. 1945-1946

39. Crime Register. Tenbury. 3 vols 1947-1958

40. Crime Register. Tenbury. 1953

41. Hagley Wood Murder File. Victor Crumpton. 1953

42. Stolen Property Index. 1960-1975

43. Prosecutions and Warrants File. Bromsgrove. 1963-1973

44. Verbal Cautions. 1970-1971

45. Regional C.I.D Conference Papers. 1982

46. Intelligence Meetings. Regional Crime Squad. 1984-1986

Force Instructions.

47. General Order Books.

(i) Tenbury Well Police Station. 5 vols

1870-1884 1891-1896 1927-1974

(ii) Powick Police Station. 5 vols

1946-1975

(iii) Pershaw Police Station. 19 vols (incomplete series) 1878-1966

(iv) Kidderminster - Stourport Division. 1958-1960

48. Chief Constable's Orders.

(i) Great Whitley. 1881-1905

(ii) Worcester Constabulary. 1904-1915

1915-1924 1933-1948

49. Chief Constable's Circular. Police Strike. 1919

50. Coronation 1953.

Operational Orders and Traffic Duties. 1953

51. Instruction Book. 1954

52. Force Orders. 1968

53. Operational Orders. Various. 1978-1984

Station Journals.

54. Duty Journal.

Pc. James Surrell.

1872-1875

55. Station Book.

Pershore.

1876-1880 56. Beat Book.

Bretforton.

1885

57. Personal Accounts of Police Work. (i) Various. 1890­

(ii) Insp. D. Grigg. 1927

58. Cell Book.

(i) Chaddsley Corbett. 1895-1936 (ii) Pershore. 1919-1952

59. Journals.

(i) Pc James Walsh. Evesham. 1904-1907

(ii) Pc George Davis. 1905-1906

60. Register of Stray Dogs. Tenbury. 2 vols 1907-1950 1907-1955

61. Superintendent's Letter Book. Alfred Hayes. Redditch Police Station. 1909-1912

62. Disease of Animals Register. Ten bury. 1911-1937

63. Diseases of Animals.

(i) Expenses. 1915-1922 1936-1937

(ii) Outbreaks. 1960-1964

(iv) Movement Licences. 1953-1959

(v) Swine Fever. Powick. 1956

64. Superintendent's Letter Book. Stourport. 1919-1924

65. Rough Log Book. Pershore. 1930

66. Pocket Books.

(i) Pc. Driver. Flyford Flavell 2 vols

1945-1954

(ii) Pershore. Cropthorne Beat. 1945

 (iii) Pershore. Lower Moon Beat.

1944

(iv) Ledbury. 1933

67. Telephone Message Book. Powick. 2 vols 1962 1963-1965

68. Special Duty Register. Undated.

Personnel.

69. Register of the Force.

Worcestershire Constabulary.

1839-1967 70. Recruitment Roll.

1839-1925

71. List of Senior Officers.

County Forces.

1858-1873 72. Record of Service.

(i) Supt. William Jeffrey.

1865-1902

(ii) Pc Benjamin Round.

1900-1923 73. Officers Records.

205 vols (incomplete)

1870-1940

74. Disciplinary Records.

1871-1880

75. Return of Pensioned Police Officers.

1899-1945

76. Nominal Roll.

(i) 1911

(ii) 1920

77. Leaver's Books.

1911-1967

78. Letter of Application.

1915

79. Personal Files.

1919-Present

N.B. Personnel Records continue as West Mercia Police

following amalgamation in 1967. Records Computerized in

1980.

80. Entrance Examinations. 2 papers. (i) 1937 (ii) 1969

81. Special Constabulary W.W. II Record Cards.

1940-1945

82. Candidate's Register. 1945-1955

83. Recruiting Campaigns. 2 vols 1945-1979

84. Resignation Certificates.

(i) 1946-1965

(ii) Police War Reserve. 1945

85. Secondment to Regional Crime Squad. 1972-1976

Watch and Standing Joint Committee.

86. Police Committee Minute Book.

Worcestershire. 1843-1855

87. Worcester Watch Committee. Police Sub-Committee Notes. 1920

88. Standing Joint Committee Memo.

Loan of Men to Other Forces.

1923

89. Police Committee Minute Book (Finance).

1946-1948

90. Worcestershire Standing Joint Committee Booklet.

1967

Miscellaneous.

91. Crime Prevention File.

1850-1980 92. Chubb's Catalogue.

1885

93. Reminiscences of Worcester County Constabulary.

H.Q. Love Grove.

1902

94. Record of Medals to Special Constables.

1914-1967

95. Inspection and Drill of a Police Division.

6930

96. Radio Communications. 1930-1940

97. Fascist And Nazi Documents. 1930-1950

98. Assorted Papers and Booklets. H.M.S.O. and Others. 14 papers 1930-1965

99. Newspaper Cuttings. 2 vols 1930-1945 Undated

100. C.I.D. Notes - Written. 1934

101. Lesson Notes. Pc Webb. 1934

102. Civil Defence Leaflets. H.M.S.O. 13 papers 1937-1961

103. Damage and Casualties.

A.A. Activity Worcester. 1939-1945

104. Birmingham City Police Centenary.

1939
105. Invasion Committee.

1940

106. Air Raid Warnings. Official Notes.

1940

107. Post Mortem Report - Emily Smith.

Pseudo Hermaphrodite.

1940

108. Self Inflicted Injury.

1944

109. Assorted Papers on Police Radio.

1945-1950

110. Occupation of Germany:country-region>.

Handbook.

1945

111. C.I.D Training Manual.

1945

112. Police Athletics Club Minutes.

1949-1967

113. Civil Defence Manuals.

1949-1950

114. Roads in Shropshire.

1967

115. Forensic Science Papers.

1966-1981

116. Review of the Forensic Evidence of Dr. Cliff.

1976-1981

117. Civil Defence. 1980

Dudley Borough Police.

118. Dudley Borough Police Assorted Papers. 1890-1949

Herefordshire Constabulary.

119. Duty Books.

(i) Abbey Dore. 2 vols

1880-1886 1906-1910

 (ii) Harewood End. 1915-1919

120. Petty Sessions Case Book. Hundred House. 4 vols 1883-1925

121. Charge Books. Hundred House. 1907-1929

122. Personal Files.

Herefordshire Constabulary. 1919- (incomplete)

N.B. Personnel Records continue as West Mercia Police

following amalgamation in 1967. Records Computerized in

1980.

123. Chief Constable's Orders.

1925-1943

124. Indictable Offences.

1937

125. World War H Organisation.

1940

126. 1st Hundred Years of Herefordshire Constabulary.

1957

Kidderminster Borough Police.

127. Register of the Force.

1912-1947 (Amalgamated with Worcestershire)

N.B. Personnel Records continue as West Mercia Police

following amalgamation in 1967. Records Computerized in

1980.

128. Chief Constable's Annual Report. 1938

129. Petty Crime Reports.
1948

Borough of Shrewsbury Police.

130. Instructions and Regulations for the Police.

1889
131. Disciplinary Records.

1920-1939

132. Personal Recollections of Supt. E. Graze.

Shrewsbury Borough Police. 1940-1946

Shropshire Constabulary. Administration and Finance.

133. Police Cottage Rents.

1913-1924

134. Police Stations in Shropshire.

1915

135. Register of Door to Door Collections. Wellington. 1939

136. Index of Irish Nationals. Oswestry.

1940-1945

Crime.

137. Return Of Offences. "B" Division. 1932-1937

138. Register of Warrants. Much Wenlock. 1964-1967

Force Instructions.

139. Orders, Reports.

(i) Ludlow Borough. 1859-1876 (ii) "E" Division. 1921-1949

140. Regulations. 1912

141. Chief Constable's Memos. 1920-1936

142. Chief Constable's Orders. 1932-1963

143. Routine Orders. 1947-1967

144. General Orders. Undated.

Station Journals.

146. Commendations for Good Work. "H" Division. 1923-1951

147. Divisional Commendation Book. Wellington Division. 1927-1967

148. Hadley Section Report. 1935

149. Found Property Register. 1949

150. Beat Boundaries. 1949

Much Wenlock. 1959-1967

Personnel.

151. Register of the Force.

1910-1967

N.B. Personnel Records continue as West Mercia Police

following amalgamation in 1967. Records Computerized in

1980.

152. Nominal Roll. 1914-1956

153. List of Special Constables.
1915-1940

154. Defaulters Book. Wellington Division. 1920-1944

Miscellaneous.

155. Diseases of Animals.

1920-1950

156. Record of Commendations by Public.

1924-1956

157. Papers Relating to Crashed Aircraft.

1939-1954

158. Notes Concerning Funeral of Geo. VI, Fuel Authority, Suez Crisis.

1952-1956

Worcester City Police.

159. Police Pensions and Details of Service.

1870­
160. Register of the Force.

1908-1967

N.B. Personnel Records continue as West Mercia Police

following amalgamation in 1967. Records Computerized in

1980.

161. Chief Constable's Orders. 6 vols 1919-1959

162. Standing Orders. 1925-1962

163. Police Club Accounts. 1940-1960

164. General and Emergency Instructions. 1942

165. Record of Commendations by Public. 1963

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