This collection comprises:
E1 - Minutes of the Glasgow Police Controlling Body and committees, 1800 - 1921.
E2 - Administrative records including: reports and returns, including criminal returns by the Chief Constable, and reports of the Fire Brigade, Statute Labour Department, Chief Inspector of Weights and Measures, Sanitary Department, fever and smallpox hospitals, Cleansing Department and Labour Bureau, 1896 - 1904 (E2/1); Police bye-laws, 1864 - 1873 (E2/2); correspondence, 1816 - 1932 (E2/3); papers relating to stipendiary magistrates, 1863 - 1900 (E2/4); papers relating to legislation and legal disputes, 1862 - 1895 (E2/5); papers relating to licensed premises, 1869 - 1874 (E2/6); burial records, 1870 - 1950 (E2/7); hotel inspection records, 1911 (E2/8); account book of the Police Clerk's office, 1900 - 1905 (E2/9) printed return of destitute persons, 1841 (E2/10).
E3 - Financial (Treasurer of Police) records, including abstracts of account, ledgers, and records of mortgages and other securities, 1801 - 1937 (E3/1-10); abstracts of daily returns of public baths and wash-houses (E3/11), 1884 - 1888 and cholera rental book (E3/12).
E4 - Correspondence of the Glasgow Procurator Fiscal 1817 - 1890
E5 - Police licensing registers including theatres, pedlars, hackney carriages, street traders, etc. 1908 - 1971
The register of bonds 1846 - 1862 (E2/2 on the original list) is missing although it may have been confused with another item in E3/8. The High Court Indictments (E4/4 on the original list) also cannot be located.
The records of the Assessors and Clerks of Police Court (E5 on the original list) were never deposited.