City and County of Denver Dept. of Safety and Excise Police Dept. Records
Scope and Contents
The collection dates between 1900 and 1982 and contains primarily Denver Police dockets and Denver Police Surgeon's dockets.
The police dockets serve mainly as daily logs of incidents requiring police response and include the name of the officer on duty, the date, time, location, and description of an incident; names and descriptions of individuals involved (sometimes including race/ethnicity, gender, and/or marital status), and actions taken by the police.
Denver Police Surgeon's dockets also act as daily logs of incidents requiring medical attention. The dockets document the date, time, location, and description of the incident; injuries and/or diseases present; names and descriptions of individuals involved (sometimes including race/ethnicity, gender, and/or marital status); the name of the medical institution where individuals were sent; and a signature of the employee recording.
The collection also includes scrapbooks containing police-related newspaper clippings, traffic order requisitions, b/w photographs of 1970s police vehicles, a police laboratory book, Denver Police Academy's Manual of Criminal Evidence(1949), and Whitten C. Steele's 1938 Denver Police Department training materials.
Dates
- 1900-1982
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Copyright
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from material in the collection should be discussed with the appropriate librarian or archivist. Permission for publication may be given on behalf of the Denver Public Library as the owner of the physical item. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the customer. The Library does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or publication rights of the manuscript held by the writer, heirs, donors, or executors. Reproduction restrictions are decided on a case-by-case basis.
Biographical / Historical
Officially established by city charter in 1861. In 1891 a metropolitan police system was established under a board of commissioners appointed by the governor. In 1901 the department was returned to municipal control by the adoption of a home rule amendment.
Extent
12 Boxes (11.25 linear ft.)
34 oversize folios
5 Volumes
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, Lt. Mike Morahan, Captain Gary Graham, City and County of Denver, 1985, 1989, 2007, 2008. Gift, Nancy O'Neal Campbell, 2023.
File Plan
One volume, police surgeon 9/4/1951-1/1/1952 returned as a permanent loan to the Denver Police Dept. in 1985.
General
Catalog record based on preliminary inventory.
General
Collection includes former C Photo Collection 241.
- Police -- Colorado -- Denver. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Police reports -- Colorado -- Denver. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Denver Public Library, Western History and Genealogy Repository
