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Finding aid for the Los Angeles Police Department collection 7118
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  • Immediate Source of Acquisition
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  • Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections
    Title: Los Angeles Police Department collection
    Creator: Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department
    Identifier/Call Number: 7118
    Physical Description: 0.21 Linear Feet 1 box
    Date (inclusive): 1951-1968
    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."
    Language of Material: English .

    Scope and Contents

    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."

    Conditions Governing Access

    Advance notice required for access.

    Conditions Governing Use

    All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

    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

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    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.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
    Police administration -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources
    Police training -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources
    Police-community relations -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
    Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources
    Bulletins
    Handbooks
    Speeches (documents)
    Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department -- Archives
    Parker, William H. (William Henry), 1902-1966 -- Archives