We hold a collection of records for Durham County Constabulary which includes record cards/sheets of deceased officers and a series of Durham County Constabulary General Order Books, which include references to appointments, promotions, transfers, etc., of individual officers.
You will find details of our
holdings of police records in catalogues which can be searched online.
Records relating to individual police officers are closed to the public for 100 years. All closure periods run from the final date of a volume.
We also hold a collection of records for the City of Durham police force, which was absorbed into the county force by 1921, and you will find details of our holdings in catalogues which can be searched online.
You will find a history of the county police force in 'One Hundred Years of Service'.
