Metropolitan Police Records Online

[aspin]

I've been having a look here for my grt grt Uncle Inspector John Stark who helped catch Jack the Ripper
But cannot find anything
He also had a brother in the police force Andrew Stark
Any help please
Elizabeth

[markyb74]

Hi BarnabyP,

Thanks very much for confirming he had a pension and tracking down the reference.

Regards,

Mark

[BarnabyP]

Hello aspin,

I too have reached a block on finding either of the Starks. Do you happen to have any information on when they might have started or left? If they were involved with the Jack the Ripper case that would place them in the Force just before the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. Is it also possible that they were in another force?

Yours, Barnaby

[justmej]

Hello aspin,

I too have reached a block on finding either of the Starks. Do you happen to have any information on when they might have started or left? If they were involved with the Jack the Ripper case that would place them in the Force just before the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. Is it also possible that they were in another force?

Yours, Barnaby

Hi Barnaby

aspin has directed me here regarding the Stark brothers.  They were both with the City of London Police rather than the Metropolitan, as John became the Assistant Chief Commissioner of the City of London Police in 1925.  He began his career at Bishopgate Station with the City Police in 1885 and as well as being involved with the Jack the Ripper hunt, he was also in charge of the City Police at the time of the Siege of Sidney Street in 1911.

Regards
justmej

[crimea]

Hi, have just joined and hope someone will be able to help with my research.
My main area of interest is men who served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers in the Great War, one of the men I'm researching went on to serve in the Metropolitan Police.

His details are John Rushmoore (Rushmore on one of his medals) and the reference to the Met comes from a note on his medal index card with a 1921 enquiry from the Met about what medals he was entitled to (1914 trio)

There is also an article in the Regimental Gazette, when as part of a Met Police Entertaiment Troupe he entertained the London Branch of the Old comrades association in 1925.

Thanks for looking

Andy

[Romilly]

I've been having a look here for my grt grt Uncle Inspector John Stark who helped catch Jack the Ripper
But cannot find anything
He also had a brother in the police force Andrew Stark
Any help please
Elizabeth

There's quite a lot on the hunt for 'Jack the Ripper' on the Metropolitan Police Site, - but I don't know if it mentions your relatives. See:

http://www.met.police.uk/history/ripper.htm

It might be worth doing a search for them on that Site.

Romilly.

[aspin]

Thank You Romilly

Elizabeth

[Valda]

Hi

For City of London police staffing records see the London Metropolitan information guide

http://217.154.230.218/NR/rdonlyres/B251C471-8429-44CC-879C-C6E4353BBEE8/0/43RECORDSOFCITYOFLONDONPOLICEOFFICERS.pdf


Comprehensive transport police staff records are not held at The National Archives.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/rdleaflet.asp?sLeafletURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Enationalarchives%2Egov%2Euk%2Fcatalogue%2Fleaflets%2Fri2204%2Ehtm&lBack=-1 
and
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Railway_Police

For the whereabouts of staffing records you need to contact the British Transport police 
http://www.btp.police.uk/about_us/history.aspx


This topic is really only about Metropolitan police officers. Please place other queries about other police forces onto the main boards.


Regards

Valda
co-moderator London and Middlesex

[aspin]

Thank You Valda

for these sites

Elizabeth