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Home Office: Police Liaison (PL Symbol Series) and Police Leadership and Powers (PLP...
Catalogue reference: HO 498
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HO 498
This series is split into the Police Liaison (PL) files and the Police Leadership and Powers (PLP) files. The Police Liaison files cover a wide range of material mainly concerned with science, technology, IT and communications and include a large...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 498
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Title (The name of the record)
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Home Office: Police Liaison (PL Symbol Series) and Police Leadership and Powers (PLP Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1979-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series is split into the Police Liaison (PL) files and the Police Leadership and Powers (PLP) files. The Police Liaison files cover a wide range of material mainly concerned with science, technology, IT and communications and include a large amount of material connected with the Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) which later became the National Policing Improvement Agency. The series contain appointments to PITO and other job appointments, police staffing reviews, details of police technical projects, use of police vehicles and equipment, documents on CCTV, other technological equipment, papers related to National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS), the Police National Computer, Police National Network, police radio systems, studies and manuals on the usage of police aviation, forensic science related material, radio communications projects, IT strategy, and the Police database HOLMES, plus visits by domestic and foreign ministers to police-related organisations.
There is a significant array of documents related to the Metropolitan Police including Home Office notes on meetings with them and their reports to the Home Office. There is information on the review of criminal records, data protection issues, government telecoms, minutes of meetings of the Conference of Chief Constables Technical Services, and various parliamentary questions including some about the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, the football hooliganism national membership scheme, disclosure of police information, police equipment usage, disclosure of criminal records and police complaints. The series also contains information on various Association of Chief Police Officer (ACPO) committees, allocations of funding for forces and other police bill related papers.
PLP papers are concerned with Human Resources related subjects relating to the police, such as discipline, police awards, appointments and police training. There is also information on the review of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE), the Police Reform Bill and papers on Centrex, the National Centre for Policing Excellence, the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Bichard Inquiry implementation papers.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- PL Symbol Series; and PLP Symbol Series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Home Office, 1782-1782
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 520 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2015 Home Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- These papers contain principal policy papers which led to primary or subordinate legislation in which the Home Office took the lead. Papers created during the formulation, implementation or interpretation of major policies, showing where there have been significant changes in policy, and the interaction between the department and other areas of public and private life will be selected. Records of events which give rise to significant contemporary interest or controversy, including the Hillsborough Disaster, will also be selected.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13378688/
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