| SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The series consists of files maintained by the Headquarters of the Alberta Provincial Police. The files pertain to:
- the organization and structure of the police force;
- correspondence with government departments, including the Attorney General and the Provincial Auditor;
- correspondence with other police forces, including those in Edmonton and Calgary as well as provincial police forces in British Columbia and Saskatchewan and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police;
- equipment including automobiles, saddles, telephones and typewriters;
- transportation, including insurance, fleet vehicles, and vehicle registration;
- acts enforced by the Police, including the Vehicle and Highway Traffic Act and the Liquor Control Act;
- questions in the Legislative Assembly;
- staffing matters including applications and appointments, game guardians, special duties, stock detectives, monthly reports and diaries of detachments, transfers, investigations into members of the force, paylists and pensions;
- newspaper clippings;
- strikes, strike reports, and surveillance of subversives and revolutionaries, unions and labour organizations, political parties, and the unemployed;
- murder investigation files; and
- specific complaints, including dangerous explosions in Edmonton; conditions in Drumheller, the 1925 election in Athabasca; MLA J.C. Buckley; the theft of funds from the Fertile Valley Municipal District; the extradition of Alfred Violette; and the Union Bank robbery in Foremost.
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