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Offline helendha

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West Yorks Police Records?
« on: Saturday 11 March 06 12:01 GMT (UK) »
Hi - received a copy of my great-great grandparents' marriage certificate today, and the bride's father's occupation is listed as being 'Police Officer'. I'm curious as to whether the old personnel records stil exist (like the old Army records, for example) and if so, where would I go to access them?

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Re: West Yorks Police Records?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 11 March 06 15:54 GMT (UK) »
You could try contacting the West Yorkshire Police HQ in Wakefield, who should certainly know what might be available. Number & address on the website,

http://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/section-item.asp?sid=2&iid=161

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Armitage-Smith Meanwood Leeds
Whitehead-Holroyd Farnley/Wortley/Armley Leeds

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Re: West Yorks Police Records?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 12 March 06 20:33 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: helendha on Saturday 11 March 06 12:01 GMT (UK)
Hi - received a copy of my great-great grandparents' marriage certificate today, and the bride's father's occupation is listed as being 'Police Officer'. I'm curious as to whether the old personnel records stil exist (like the old Army records, for example) and if so, where would I go to access them?

TIA!
H

I also have "police/fireman" as distant relative. The Rotherham Archives told me all the records were away at present due to renovation work but they would be back mid summer. All records are likely to be there for Rotherham area. Perhaps you could try the Archives in the area where your relative was.

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Re: West Yorks Police Records?
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 12 March 06 22:46 GMT (UK) »
The records for West Yorks Police are held by the West Yorkshire Archive Service at Wakefield. See here for contact details http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/index.htm

There is an online searchable catalogue at http://www.dswebhosting.info/WYAS/ which gives a very detailed listing of the records. 

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Richard
Researching police history and archives.

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Re: West Yorks Police Records?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 13 March 06 14:13 GMT (UK) »
Hi there,

The following site is always worth a look.I had a couple of snippets about my G.grandfather.

www.lightage.demon.co.uk

Best of luck with your research.
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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 15 March 06 01:00 GMT (UK) »
If you email the WY Archives with some details of name and roughly where he was a Police Officer, they do an initial search. They did this by email for my grandfather and responded within a couple of days.  They also pointed me in the direction of the files I need to look at when visiting the archives.
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Re: West Yorks Police Records?
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 16 March 06 21:06 GMT (UK) »
I wanted to say a big 'thank you' to everyone......Goughy that was a great idea, the Archive service emailed me back tonight to say they've located my ancestor's entry and will send me a photocopy for a small fee. Very exciting!

I'm also looking at the other links you all provided. So once again - thank you  :)
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