HI The message in today's digest about police force records interested me. My maternal grandfather (Fred WEATHERILL 1880 Great Broughton - 1951 Hatfield nr Doncaster) was a policeman. He first served with the East Riding Constabulary, but when he wished to marry he moved to the West Riding because their officers could get married accommodation (that's my mother's account). I assume that his ERY record would be at Beverley, but when with the West Riding police he was stationed at Wombwell, North Anston, Denaby and Hatfield. These are all in the modern South Yorkshire as far as policing is concerned. Would his West Riding record be at Wakefield or somewhere else? John Lindley NRY . . . Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] help with parish records Patrington To: pauline alden <[email protected]>, [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi Pauline, In researching our local war memorial, I discovered that one of our men and been a policeman, The archives of the local police force are at the county archives and I was able to get his complete work record. If you can get hold of your gt grandfather's record and need help with understanding it, I am willing to give it a go. My late husband was in the job, as is my son in law now so I do know something about how the police work. There have been several amalgamations of small police forces. Perhaps your first port of call should be the catalogue at Beverley and then the HQ of the now force for the area (sorry I do not know which one covers ERY).