Police collections

Collections related to the history of policing originally collected by the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University.

The Police Collection contains a large collection of criminology books and journals. These can be searched through the Open University Library Search.

The Open University Archive holds the following collections related to policing:

  • Photograph albums of events in Essex
  • Cutting Books of Detective Sergeant William Alexander Grigor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Police
  • The John Syme Collection
  • The Metropolitan Police Orders Collection
  • The Police Gazette Collection
  • Police Artifacts Collection
  • The South Western Crime Collection

To access the collections or request copies of catalogues, contact The Open University Archive Team.