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Home Office: Queen's Peace (QPE Symbol Series) Files

Catalogue reference: HO 325

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HO 325

Files from the Home Office QPE (Queen's Peace) symbol series, concerning the maintenance of public order, the control of disturbances and the organisation of procedures to deal with civil emergencies, including civil defence measures.

Full description and record details

Reference

HO 325

Title
Home Office: Queen's Peace (QPE Symbol Series) Files
Date

1944-1998

Description

Files from the Home Office QPE (Queen's Peace) symbol series, concerning the maintenance of public order, the control of disturbances and the organisation of procedures to deal with civil emergencies, including civil defence measures.

Arrangement
Arrangement

The pieces are arranged in numerical order by departmental file number. The inclusion of a date before a file number, as in QPE (1962) 5/4/1 indicates that the year in which the file was created was included in the file reference number. Thus the full departmental reference of a file listed as QPE (1962) 5/4/1 would be QPE/62 5/4/1.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

QPE Symbol file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

914 file(s)

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1990 Home Office

Subjects
Topics
Public disorder
Accruals

Series is accruing.

Administrative / biographical background

The QPE series deals mainly with the role of the Home Office in conjunction with the Security Services in the maintenance of public order through monitoring the activities of extremist, subversive or racist organisations. It is also concerned with procedures for countering civil unrest and dealing with emergencies on a regional and national basis. Various F Divisions of the Home Office were responsible for and contributed to these files.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9189/

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