Police
Found in 125 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), [Jul] [1911]
Copy of a confidential memorandum detailing the principles by which the military should assist the civil authorities during the strikes at Salford [Lancashire] including efforts which to avoid confrontation between the military and strikers, and the circumstances under which the military are to be deployed. Typescript. See CHAR 12/12/1-3.
(Untitled), 19 Aug 1911
Copy of a report on the railway strike. Subjects covered include: the suspension of goods trains which threatens the food supply to South Wales and the area between Newcastle, Liverpool, Nottingham and Hull and the lack of accurate information from the railway companies concerning efforts to resume services and the extent of the strike. Typescript with manuscript alterations and a note on the dorse concerning the return of troops and the enlistment of special constables.
(Untitled), [1910]
Copy of a letter from [WSC, Home Office] to the Adjutant General concerning the presence of the Metropolitan Police in South Wales. As there is no sign of resolution in the strike it is proposed that the infantry force should be strengthened so that the police may be removed. WSC asks whether the War Office will be prepared to supply further infantry forces if Major-General [Cecil] Macready [Director of Personal Services, War Office] should require them. Unsigned typescript.
(Untitled), [1910]
(Untitled), 06 Jan 1911
(Untitled), [Jan] [1911]
(Untitled), 22 Nov 1910
(Untitled), 23 Nov 1910
Letter from Herbert Asquith (10 Downing Street) to WSC in which he advises that legal action should be taken over the assault on [Augustine] Birrell [by suffragettes on 22 November 1910] and over all cases of serious assault on the police. Manuscript signed with initials.
(Untitled), 09 Dec 1910
Newspaper cutting from "Votes for Women" of an article entitled "Why I struck at Mr Churchill" by Hugh Franklin. [Franklin was sentenced for assaulting WSC on 26 November 1910] and alleges various reasons for his attack: WSC's orders to the police which resulted in physical violence against the suffragettes; his insults and slander; and the rough treatment given to those who speak about women's suffrage at Liberal meetings. See CHAR 12/3/48.
(Untitled), c 1910
(Untitled), 22 Aug 1910
Letter from [Captain Charles] Fitzclarence (41 Ovington Square, Pont Street [London]) to WSC asking him to "give... favourable consideration" to his application for the post of Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police. Signed manuscript. See CHAR 12/2/80.
(Untitled), 12 Aug [1910]
Letter from Nellie Melba (Ritz Hotel [London]) to WSC asking him to help Captain [Charles] Fitzclarence with his application for the post of Chief Constable [Commissioner] in the Metropolitan Police. Signed manuscript. See CHAR 12/2/79.
(Untitled), 27 Sep 1921
Letter from [WSC] to Edward Shortt expressing disquiet about reports of large reductions in the pay of the Metropolitan Police. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 30 Sep 1921
Letter from Edward Shortt to WSC explaining that the pay of the Metropolitan police is not being reduced but that their bonus will disappear because the cost of living has fallen.
(Untitled), 21 Nov 1920
Circular letter from Brigadier-General Henry Malcolm (Privatklinik Drs von Norden and Lampe, Schiferstrasse 78-82, Frankfurt-am-Main, [Germany] to the members of the Supreme Allied Council and others describing the dangerous increase in the number of criminals in Germany and the need for the German police force to be augmented and fully armed if Germany is not to succumb to Bolshevism. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/117/102.
(Untitled), 11 Oct 1928
Letter from Sir Abe Bailey (38 Bryanston Square, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on becoming a brick-layer, asserting that [Sir William Joynson-Hicks, later 1st Lord Brentford] has split the Church, the police and the Conservative Party, and that the Labour Party will be strong at the next general election.
(Untitled), 03 Nov 1910
Letter from Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] (War Office) to WSC reporting that he is going to Aldershot [Hampshire] to examine the airship construction department there, and that he does not think the Government can usefully intervene in the deveopment of [Louis Brennan's] monorail system. States that he is ready to take up WSC's plan of a police territorial brigade.
(Untitled), 1929
Suggested replies for Conservative candidates to questions on police pensions.
(Untitled), 24 Aug 1945
Letter from "Max" [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] (Cherkley, Leatherhead, Surrey) to WSC recommending him not to reply to [Herbert] Morrison's letter [CHAR 20/231/2-5, 6-9 or 13-17], suggesting it is a provocation, and that they should attack Morrison's policies on the police. [signed].
(Untitled), 01 Nov 1944 - 30 Nov 1944
(Untitled), 04 Feb 1942 - 03 Sep 1942
Visits, 1988-01
Briefings for meetings with K M Safi Ullah, the Bangladesh High Commissioner [1988, not 1989 as marked], and the Police Federation and for an Australia Day reception, including cuttings on relations with Australia.
Visits, 1986-11
Speech notes, correspondence with individuals including Bernie Grant, Leader of Haringey Council and Michael Winner, Chairman of the Police Memorial Trust (5), and arrangements for the unveiling of a memorial to Police Constable Keith Blakelock, Haringey, London [following Blakelock’s death in the Broadwater Farm riot, Oct 1985].
Visits and meetings, 1988-07
Briefings for a lunch with the Police Commissioners at Scotland Yard, and for a meeting with Scottish women Provosts. Also includes a letter confirming NK’s visit to Botswana (see KNNK 19/4).