Police and Community7 March 2014

Alice Stewart, Information Management Department

Location of Records

Central Scotland Stirling Archives

Dumfries & Galloway Dumfries Archives / In Force

Fife Fife Archives

Grampian Aberdeen City Archives

Lothian & Borders Edinburgh City Archives / In Force

Northern Highland Archives, Inverness

Strathclyde Glasgow City Archives

Tayside In Force

ACPOS National Records of Scotland / In Force

Various Scottish Screen Archive

Police Service of Scotland TBC

Selection of Archives

• Genealogy & Family History– Personnel files and registers, cell books and custody

records, whipping books, complaints and commendations, mortuary records

Selection of Archives

• Local & National History– Occurrence books, specific events, investigations

• Organisational Change & Governance– Relationships with partners and with government– Instructions and policing priorities

• Statistics, Reports and Returns– Performance has always been important– How much has policing changed?

Selection of Archives

• Built Heritage– Police as landlords, builders and owners of unique property

• Sports Records– Importance of sport, leisure & music to the police ‘family’ and

the relationship with the communities the Police serve

• Training records– Operational techniques– Promotion process

Selection of Archives

• Photographs, Scrapbooks

The Future – Challenges for Archives

• New formats for record creation– Capturing data rather than records– Open source / ‘big’ data

• Volume

• Legislation

Access

• Deposit Agreements

• Legislative compliance– Data Protection– Freedom of Information/Environmental Regulations

• Encourage access and use– Ethical research standards– Data re-use, data storage