The Police Act 1856 prompted the creation of County police
forces, including both Huntingdon County Constabulary, with its own
Chief Constable, and the Liberty of Peterborough Police Force,
sharing its Chief Constable with Northamptonshire Constabulary. In
1874 the City of Peterborough Constabulary was created with its own
Chief Constable; in 1947 the City and Liberty forces were
amalgamated, and in 1965 further amalgamation with Cambridgeshire
created the Mid-Anglia Constabulary (since 1974 Cambridgeshire
Constabulary).
Peterborough Central Library holds duplicate minutes for the
Mid-Anglia Constabulary, Cambridgeshire Constabulary and
Peterborough Combined Police Authority
Huntingdon Record Office holds:
- 1857-1965: Huntingdon County Constabulary
- including records of Hurstingstone, Leightonstone, Norman
Cross, Ramsey and Toseland police divisions.
- 1812-1947: Liberty of Peterborough Police Force
- 1874-1947: City of Peterborough Police Force
- 1947-1965: Peterborough Combined Police Force
- 1965-1974: Mid Anglia Constabulary: Eastern Division covered
the Peterborough area
Cambridge Record Office is listed on National Register of
Archives as holding:
- Peterborough Police Force
- 1857-1966: records (Reference: Acc 4440).
Northamptonshire Record Office holds:
- Liberty of Peterborough Police Force accounts
- 1867-1974 (Reference M.L 657).
Peterborough Constabulary
- 1893-1923: Correspondence, Returns to HM Inspector of
Constabulary, duty notebooks, pamphlets, circulars, register of
game and gun licenses and register of aliens (Ref:
X1904-X1910).
Some of the more recent records of these forces may be closed to
the public, due to the details they contain about individual
members of the police, and about specific crimes.
Printed sources:
- Commemorating 100 years of the Peterborough Police
1857-1957 and official opening of the new Police
headquarters, 23, May 1957. (Peterborough Cambridgeshire
Polica Authority, 1957)
- Peterborough Divisional Headquarters: official
opening, 22 Oct 1979 [brochure] (Cambs Constabulary,
1979).
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