Police

Sgt Meppen Warburton Walter in police uniform, Calcutta 1919

Records

• Indian Police Service Records held at the British Library

Madras Presidency

Administration Reports of the Madras Police

The Administration Report of the Madras Police returned between 1866 and 1893 (IOR/V/24/3129-33) are largely statistical documents but contain the odd family history snippet. Note that the format seems to change year on year. The Superintendent of each Madras district sent a report detailing incidents worthy of comment, some being major crimes, some being internal disciplinary matters. Although names are not often given, phrases such as "the Head Constable of --- station" are used, meaning that if you have a police ancestor in Madras at this time it might be worth checking these reports. If nothing else, the reports give a flavour of the police work. The series appears to be continued from 1894-1948 (IOR/V/24/3133-37) but the content of these files cannot be commented upon.

Editions found online:

• Administration Report of the Madras Police for 1880 Archive.org
• Administration Report of the Madras Police for 1882 Archive.org
• Administration Report of the Madras Police for 1883 Archive.org

External links

Deaths of Gazetted Police Officers - India and Burma Police 1888 - 1944 from www.redcoat.info, transcribed from To Guard My People:the History of the Indian Police by Sir Percival Joseph Griffiths 1971, available at the British Library
Development of the Police under East India Company The Police in India By M. B. Chande 1997 (Google Books)
Police Developments during 1858 to 1900 period The Police in India By M. B. Chande 1997 (Google Books)

Historical books online

• Report on the Police of the Bombay Presidency for 1857 1859 Google Books
• From England to the Antipodes & India - 1846 to 1902, with startling revelations, or 56 years of my life in the Indian Mutiny, Police & Jails by Isaac Tyrell 1904, page 73 the author left the 43rd Regiment of Foot (British Army) in 1860 and joined the Madras Police. Archive.org
• Reminiscences of an Indian Police Official by Arthur Travers Crawford (1894) Bombay Presidency (Archive.org)
• The Bengal Police Manual, 1911 Volume 1, Volume 2, Forms and Appendices (Archive.org)
• Eastern Bengal and Assam Police Manual 1911 (Archive.org)

• Volume 3 Reserve, Ordnance, Clothing, Guards and Escorts
• Volume 4 Court Office
• Volume 5 Inspectors and Police Stations

• Police and crime in India by Edmund Charles Cox 1911 Archiv.org
• Life in the Indian police by Charles Elphinstone Gouldsbury 1912 Archive.org
• Police Regulations, Bengal 1915 Volume 4, Court Office Archive.org
• In an Indian District; an enlarged edition of “Police Notes” by G.G.B. Iver, Indian Police 1919 Archive.org
• The Bombay City Police: A Historical Sketch 1672-1916 by S M Edwardes 1923 Archive.org
• Crime In India by S M Edwardes 1924 Archive.org