Links & information

 

On this page , we hope to provide links for researchers into police history, although not all Police Forces currently have their own web sites.

We also intend, in due course, to include information on the type of records currently held by each Force and how they may be seen by researchers.  This task will take some time, so we ask visitors to the site to be patient.  

Clicking on the appropriate Force or Association will take you to their web site (if available), from whence you will probably be able to navigate to other items of interest.

 

 

Museum Collection
 
 Most sites are updated on a regular basis and will repay further visits.
 

Police Force web sites 


 

Avon & Somerset London, City of Dyfed-Powys
Bedfordshire Merseyside Gwent
Cambridgeshire Metropolitan North Wales
Cheshire Norfolk South Wales
Cleveland  Northamptonshire
Cumbria  Northumbria Central Scotland
Derbyshire  North Yorkshire Dumfries & Galloway
Devon & Cornwall  Nottinghamshire Fife
Dorset  South Yorkshire Grampian
Durham  Staffordshire Lothian & Borders
Essex  Suffolk Northern
Gloucestershire             Surrey            Strathclyde
Greater Manchester  Sussex Tayside
Hampshire Thames Valley
Hertfordshire  York Minster
Warwickshire
Guernsey
West Mercia Isle of Man
Kent  West Midlands States of Jersey
Lancashire  West Yorkshire  
Leicestershire Wiltshire Garda Siochana
Lincolnshire Police Service of Northern Ireland
 
www.police.uk British Transport
Civil Nuclear Constabulary
Ministry of Defence
Royal Military Police
 

Current Police Museums with web sites


 

City of London Police Museum London Police Museum
Derbyshire Constabulary Museum Metropolitan Police Crime Museum
Essex Police Museum Police Service of Northern Ireland Museum
Galleries of Justice, Nottingham South Wales Police Museum
Garda Siochana Museum Thames Police Museum
Glasgow Police Museum Thames Valley Police Museum
Greater Manchester Police Museum Yorkshire Law & Order Museum
Kent Police Museum West Midlands Police Museum
 

Police related Historical Societies and other bodies


 

British Police Helmets Police Insignia Collectors Association
British Transport Police History Group Police Review
Buckinghamshire Constabulary Police Roll of Honour
Clifford Elmer Books - True crime bestseller Police Services of the U.K
Epping Forest District Museum Radstock Museum
European Centre for the Study of Policing Research Victorian London Police Divisions
Gateshead Borough Police (1836 - 1968) Serious Organised Crime Agency
Hampshire Constabulary History Society Sheffield Fire & Police Museum
International Police Association, Section UK Special Constables
Local History On-line St George's House, Northern Police Orphanage
Martin Stallion (Police history publisher) Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service
Metropolitan Police Records - 401,0000 entries
from 1899-1929 and more each month
Surrey Constabulary History
National Association of Retired Police Officers Tetbury Police Museum
National Archives The Southern Provincial Police Orphanage
North Eastern Police History Society U.K Police Oracle
Police Aviation News Waltham Abbey Police Historical Collection
Police Federation of England & Wales

 


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Web site last updated: April 2011