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NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, NORFOLK COUNTY CONSTABULARY

Catalogue reference: C/PO

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This record is about the NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, NORFOLK COUNTY CONSTABULARY dating from 1837-1967.

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Reference
C/PO
Title
NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, NORFOLK COUNTY CONSTABULARY
Date
1837-1967
Description

Records of Police Divisions

Related material

<p>For further police material see county records list. (C/Saa 5)</p>

Held by
Norfolk Record Office
Language
English
Creator(s)
<corpname>Norfolk County Council, Norfolk County Constabulary</corpname>
Physical description
59 files
Access conditions

Documents Less than 30 years old are closed to public inspection.

Immediate source of acquisition

Received by Norfolk Record Office on unknown date, numbered C/PO 1/1-58, and on 8 February 1995, numbered C/PO 1/59.

Administrative / biographical background

The county police force had its origins in the Norfolk Rural Police, formed in 1839 under the adoptive County Police Act, 2-3 Vic. c. 93. Its complement, duties and distribution were revised at intervals during the 19th century and in 1889 responsibility for constabulary matters was transferred from the Justices of the Peace to the County Council on its creation. There seems, however, to be little trace of this change in the records, which have been listed without regard to the alteration in administration. By the Norfolk Joint Police (Amalgamation) Order 1967 the Norfolk Constabulary, Norwich City Police Force and Great Yarmouth Borough Police were combined in January 1968.

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NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL, NORFOLK COUNTY CONSTABULARY