Police Records

Police Records

Colin WallerArchivist

(Highland Archive Service)

Highland Archive Centre, Inverness

• Official documents eg local authority recordsThe Highland CouncilHighland Region CouncilCounties, Burghs and Parishes etc.

• Privately deposited records Businesses, Societies, Estates, IndividualsNHS HighlandPolice Scotland (Northern Constabulary)

• Charge and superintendence records Church Records, Customs and Excise Records

Highland Archive ServiceTypes of Records

Northern Constabulary records [HCA/R91]

•Records cover:County and burgh police forces,1832-2000

•Main record series:Chief Constable’s annual reports, returns and letterbooksPolice station daily occurrence booksSome incident reports e.g. Aircraft CrashesPersonnel records

•Access restrictions:Enquiries may need to be referred to the Police Scotland Freedom of Information Officer

Potential Users

•Family Historians

•Creative Writers

•Local and Social Historians

Case Study 1Family Historians

Donald and Margaret Sutherland,Wonthaggi, Australia

Inverness-shireConstabulary Personal Record and Defaulters Book,1882-1911[HCA/R91/D/9/3]

Foyers StationDaily Occurrence Book, P. C. Campbell andP. C. Sutherland1908 - 1911[HCA/R91/D/B/5/7/1]

Inverness-shireConstabulary,1899-1901[HCA/R91/D/9/3]

P.C. William Sutherland

Case Study 2Creative Writers

andLocal and Social Historians

Gold theft in KildonanThe story of an unlucky thief

(or a lucky policeman)

Ordnance Survey map3rd Edition, 1911

Sheet 109 - Auchintoul

Sutherland Estate Gold Miner’s License, 1869 [HCA/D1359/1/2]

Kildonan Station Daily Occurrence Book - 4 September 1869[HCA/R91/B/5/10/1]

Crime scene: Baile an Òr

Helmsdale[HCA/R91/B/5/10/1]

From Helmsdale to Dornoch[HCA/R91/B/10/5/1]

Dornoch Station Daily Journal of Inspector G. Bridgeford[HCA/R91/B/5/5/2]

Dornoch

Register of parties accused of crimes and offences, Dornoch, 1863-1873

[HCA/R91/B/2/a]

Sutherland Constabulary Record Form A , 1867-1874[HCA/R91/B/2/b]

Account Book

Sutherland County ConstabularyCash Book

[HCA/R91/B/7/5]

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