Los Angeles Police Department collection, 1951-1968

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Summary

Title:
Los Angeles Police Department collection
Dates:
1951-1968
Creators:
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department
Abstract:
A collection of materials created by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for internal communications and external community relations relating to law enforcement. The collection contains eighteen issues of the LAPD's Daily Training Bulletin (1951-1952); the text of a 1955 speech by W. H. Parker titled "The Police Role in Community Relations" (printed in the form of an extended Daily Training Bulletin; an operational handbook for internal use by LAPD personnel detailing the extensive security plan for Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to Los Angeles; and the text of an address given by LAPD Chief Thomas Reddin in 1968 titled "Law Enforcement in a Complex Society."
Extent:
0.21 Linear Feet 1 box
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], Los Angeles Police Department collection, Collection no. 7118, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Background

Scope and content:

A collection of materials created by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for internal communications and external community relations relating to law enforcement. The collection contains eighteen issues of the LAPD's Daily Training Bulletin (1951-1952); the text of a 1955 speech by W. H. Parker titled "The Police Role in Community Relations" (printed in the form of an extended Daily Training Bulletin; an operational handbook for internal use by LAPD personnel detailing the extensive security plan for Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to Los Angeles; and the text of an address given by LAPD Chief Thomas Reddin in 1968 titled "Law Enforcement in a Complex Society."

Acquisition information:
Purchased from Walkabout Books, March 8, 2021.
Processing information:

Many of the descriptive notes in this finding aid were adapted from descriptions by the immediate source of the material, Walkabout Books.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Bo Doub
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-07-08 11:03:55 -0700 .

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Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[Box/folder no. or item name], Los Angeles Police Department collection, Collection no. 7118, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Location of this collection:
Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Room 209
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182, US
Contact:
(213) 740-5900
specol@usc.edu
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