Police Station Records

There is a 100 year closure period on these records, but staff are able to look up information for you on your own family only if names and dates can be supplied.  A more recent deposit of police material (also obviously under closure) was received from the Highland Council Archive in Inverness in 2000, but a list is not yet available.

      COUNTY OF CAITHNESS

      County Constabulary Officers Default Book

     1859 - 1890

      Conviction Book

     1858 - 1880

     1880 - 1919

      Police Record of Crimes and Offenses

     1902 - 1919

      Police Criminal Register        

     1920 - 1952

      Police Record of Crimes and Offenses (Landward)

     1897 - 1903

      Police Report Book of Crimes and other Occurrences (Landward)

     1907 - 1929

     1929 - 1943

     1943 - 1958

     1958 - 1965

      Register of Juvenile Offenders Sentenced to Whipping at Thurso Station

     1886 - 1890

      Police Constable Payments (including War bonuses)

     1902 - 1915

     1915 - 1926

      Caithness Constabulary Chief Constable Order Book

     1859 - 1902

      Register of Pedlar's Certificates granted by the Chief Constable

     1870 - 1975

          Station Lock Up Book

          Dunbeath     1882 - 1931   Combined

          Lybster      1935 - 1950   

         (both stations in the one volume)

          Lybster      1885 - 1934   

     Bail Money Counterfoil Book (Lybster Police Station)

     1923 - 1936

     1936 - 1943

      Photograph Album of Police Stations in the County

     c. 1955 - 1960

      Copies of Indictments and Criminal Libels (loose)

     1860 - 1934                    

     BURGH OF WICK

     Police Record of Crimes and Offenses

     1909 - 1919

     Police Records of Crimes and other Occurrences

     911 - 1922

    Record of Persons Detained in Custody - Wick Station

      1916 - 1950
      1951 - 1963
     Occurrence Books - County of Caithness
     1913 - 1919
     1919 - 1927
     1927 - 1931
     1931 - 1933
     1933 - 1936
     1936 - 1938
     1938 - 1941
     1941 - 1944
     1944 - 1950
     1950 - 1953
    
    Occurrence Register - Wick Station
    1962 - 1963
 

    BURGH OF THURSO
    Police Criminal Register
    1914 - 1953

     Police Report Book of Crimes, Offenses and Sudden Deaths (investigated)
     1896 - 1924
     Police Record of Crimes and Offenses
     1898 - 1902
     1902 - 1914
    Thurso Burgh and District Police Report Book of Crimes,                     Offenses         and Sudden
    Deaths      (investigated)
    1887 - 1896
    Record of Persons Detained in Custody  (Thurso Police Station)
     1884 - 1918
     1918 - 1955
     Register of Visits to Criminal Prisoners (Thurso Police Station)
     1886;   1888;     1934;   1941:
     Register of Sickness Reported in Thurso Police Station
      1888;   1889;   1934;   1941: