Summary |
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Creator: | Police Scotland |
Title: | Police Scotland Collection |
Dates: | 1988-2013 |
Size: | .25 linear foot |
Abstract: | The Police Scotland Collection contains materials related to the history of the force, many members of which were first responders to crash of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and participants in the subsequent investigation and trial. |
Language: | English |
Repository: |
Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center/pan-am-103 |
The first police force for the Dumfries and Galloway region was established in 1788 as the Royal Burgh of Dumfries Police. In 1838 the County of Dumfries Police was formed, followed closely by other local law enforcement agencies, which, in 1948, combined to form the Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary.
Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary was the smallest police force in mainland
Britain. Nonetheless, it is credited with the design of the Scottish Police badge
(1926), and the checkered design featured on Scottish police hats. Dumfries and Galloway
was the police force responsible for the investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight
103.
Dumfries and Galloway became District V of Police Scotland on April 1, 2013, and is
now the second largest force in the United Kingdom after the Metropolitan Police in
London, England.
The Police Scotland Collection contains materials related to the history of the force, many members of which were first responders to and engaged in the investigation of the bombing and crash of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Collection materials have been arranged into the series for Correspondence, Memorabilia, Photographs, and Subject Files.
Selected materials from this collection have been digitized. Please contact the archivist for further information on accessing the materials.
There are no access restrictions for this collection.
Written permission must be obtained from the Pan Am Flight 103 Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
The Pan Am Flight 103 Archives contains additional materials and information related to the Police Scotland Collection. Related collections include:
Pan Am Flight 103 Publications Collection
Pan Am 103 Story Archives Collection
Stephen John Boland Family Papers
Police Scotland Collection,
Pan Am Flight 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives
Syracuse University Libraries
The Police Scotland Collection was donated in 2014 by Michael Dalgleish, Detective Superintendent of Organised Crime and Counter Terrorism for the Specialist Crime Division of Police Scotland. Additional materials were gathered by Archives staff during a 2013 trip to Lockerbie, Scotland.
The Police Scotland Collection is fully processed.
Created by: Vanessa L. St.Oegger-Menn
Date: March 2015
Revision history: February 2016 - Inventory added (VSOM)
Correspondence | |||||||||||
Box 1 | January-September 1990, undated |
Memorabilia | |||||||||||
Box 1 | Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary Plaque 1997 | ||||||||||
Box 1 | Kamp van Zeist Commemorative Pins undated |
Photographs | |||||||||||
Box 1 |
2013
Plaque given to Police Scotland by the families of the victims of Pan Am 103. Former headquarters of Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary. |