Helping us with our enquiries
With the weather being unpredictable, more people are staying at home and researching their families which has led to a surge in enquiries.
But here at the Police Archives, we don’t just answer queries and go out to events and talks. Our volunteers are all working hard on a variety of tasks.
P is transcribing Chief Constables orders and putting them all together in some semblance of order. 
D has been researching death of officers in service and on duty
J has been extracting collar numbers and where officers served from personnel files
E is transcribing pocket books from the 1870s and researching the details to add to our website
S is working at home extracting data to show why officers left in the first 100 years or so of the constabulary and whether reasons were related to health and if their health was affected by their conditions of service
E is looking into commendations and bravery
C is extracting information from General Orders to show the bigger picture when it comes to the careers of police officers
T is researching deep into the lives of officers to see what they were like outside work as well as finding out what happened to them after they left the force under a cloud
We are also looking at identifying officers from warrant card photographs from the 1970s and 80s and adding their collar numbers to our growing list. It seems amazing that we have lists of recruits joining that are numbered but that number is their joining number and not their collar number and it is the collar number which identifies them.
The talk and event circuit has continued to be busy.
In April there was a talk at the Tetbury Police Museum on Victorian Policing which went down well...so well, in fact that they now want a talk on women in policing on October 30th. There was also a presentation at Charlton Kings and several visitors came to the Heritage Hub to donate items and share photographs
In May we went out to visit the Cheltenham Police Cadets who are undertaking a project to identify graves of serving police officers who died and trying to ensure that they are well kept and documented.
We also went out to an event at the Constabulary Headquarters to show new staff what we do.
June was an exceptionally busy month, with the Heritage Hub Partners event, a D-Day event in a local care home and a D-Day display at Police HQ.
And although we are busy we still have some room for more events/talks. The only thing we say is that each talk is written to order so we do need a bit of warning.
If you have any police related photographs we are always happy to receive Jpegs via gloucestershirepolicearchives@gmail.com and queries can also be sent to the same email address. We are also able to scan photographs in our office at the Heritage Hub. We are usually open Monday to Wednesday until 2.30pm but it is worth checking before you make a visit as we do go out and about quite often.