Reference
Po/MUS
Title
Records of Bedfordshire Police Museum
Admin/biog history
The records in this sub-fonds were accummulated by Bedfordshire Police Museum and are held on loan at the archives on their behalf. The Museum is currently located at the old Police Station on Halsey Road in Kempston. They can be contacted by email to museum@bedfordshire.pnn.police.uk . - correct as of 15/10/2019).
Archival history
The records were obtained by the Police Museum directly from Bedfordshire Police. They were then transferred to the archives on loan in two accessions dated 2005 (accession 9591) and 2010 (10073). The Police Museum retains ownership.
While cataloguing photographs were relocated into Po/PH to enable ease of access and Bedford and Luton Bylaws which were not already held by the archives into BorB and BorL respectively. These have all retained the relevent accession number.
In July 2019 the Police Museum permanenly withdrew 35 volumes from the archive service. The archives retains digital copies of some of these volumes where there were no longer any data protection issues. However, enquiries regarding personnel should be addressed to the police museum ( museum@bedfordshire.pnn.police.uk ) rather than the archives service.
System of arrangement
This catalogue has been arranged in accordance with the original 1840 divisions, with the addition of the Borough forces. In some instances, records within each series will span divisional changes or have been produced after the original division had changed in name or been absorbed by a separate division but still relate to this area.
The collection was weeded at the point of cataloguing with unwanted items being returned to the Police Museum.
Some items within this collection are closed in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998). Requests for access to their content can be directed to Bedfordshire Archives, or the Police Museum.
Level of description
sub-fonds