Metadata : Białystok County Police Headquarters
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Białystok
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe w Białymstoku
- Postal address:
- Adama Mickiewicza 101, 15-257 Białystok
- Phone number:
- +48 85 743 56 03
- Web address:
- http://www.bialystok.ap.gov.pl/
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives in Białystok
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Państwowe w Białymstoku
- Postal address:
- Adama Mickiewicza 101, 15-257 Białystok
- Phone number:
- +48 85 743 56 03
- Web address:
- http://www.bialystok.ap.gov.pl/
- Reference number:
- 4/46/2
- Title:
- Białystok County Police Headquarters
- Title (official language):
- Zarząd Policji Powiatu Białostockiego
- Creator/accumulator:
- Białystok County Police Headquarters
- Date(s):
- 1891/1914
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 0.4 metres (15 documents)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The materials grouped in the collection were produced by police institutions at the town and county level in Grodno guberniya. The scope of police activities included security and public order as well as law enforcement matters (including monitoring the implementation of regulations introduced administrative, judicial and military authorities), which is why the collection includes documentation produced by, among others, the Municipal Police Board, Address Office 1912-1915 in the form of copies of orders, personnel lists, financial documentation. It also contains documentation of the Police Board of Bialystok county 1891-1914 and the Heads of the four Regions of Bialystok County of Grodno Guberniya, including lists of Prussian and Austrian subjects liable to be displaced. It includes statistical material on demography, agriculture, industry, trade in Białystok county, lists of people wanted by the police, cases of people evading military service, lists of people on leave, cases of police supervision, data on German colonists, roads and bridges, harvests and tax collection. The records of the police offices in Grodno guberniya contain lists of inhabitants from 1891 registered as non-permanent population in the following towns: Choroszcz, Goniądz, Gródek, Jasionówka, Knyszyn, Trzcianne and Zabłudów. The censuses contain information about the places where the non-permanent population came from and in which of the towns the people were entered into the register of permanent residents. All family members were listed, as well as their age and occupation or what they did for a living. The lists of inhabitants of the towns of Goniądz, Gródek, Jasionówka, Trzcianne and Zabłudów contain information concerning only Jewish families.
- Archival history:
- During World War I, the police offices were evacuated deep into Russia, and the records were evacuated along with them. Kaluga became the seat of the police offices, as well as other institutions in Białystok. The records survived after the offices were liquidated, as can be surmised from the stamps visible on the records. They were handed over to the Provincial State Archives (now APB) in Białystok in Poland in the 1960s. In December 1963, the records of the Chief of Police from the Białystok County (ref. no. 460 in the acquisitions register) were also returned along with the transport of records recovered from the USSR that were handed over directly to the Provincial State Archives in Białystok at the railway station in Kuźnica. In October 1969, the last group of police records recovered from the USSR was submitted to the Provincial State Archives in Białystok through the Directorate of State Archives. These were the records of the Police Board of Białystok county (ref. no. 690 in the acquisitions register).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Before World War I, there were police units in Grodno Guberniya, and the entire police authority in the district was vested in the Police Board. The capital, and provincial as well as some larger towns were excluded from under its jurisdiction. They had a separate police force (Gorodskoye Politseyskoye Upravlenye). Both the county and town police boards performed their functions through offices and officers in towns and villages. The county police was headed by a deputy and his assistant, while the town police was headed by a police chief and his assistant. Both counties and towns subject to the municipal police were divided into police districts and posts. Higher police authority was vested in the governor and the Police Department of the Ministry of the Interior. The governor supervised the police with the help of the Guberniya Government.
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Police
- Taxation
- Finding aids:
-
A printed inventory is available at the State Archives in Białystok.
Policja Państwowa w Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej Wybrane aspekty organizacji i funkcjonowania, red: Adrian Tyszkiewicz.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Urszula Gierasimiuk; December 2020
- Reference number:
- 4/46/2
- Title:
- Białystok County Police Headquarters
- Title (official language):
- Zarząd Policji Powiatu Białostockiego
- Creator/accumulator:
- Białystok County Police Headquarters
- Date(s):
- 1891/1914
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 0.4 metres (15 documents)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The materials grouped in the collection were produced by police institutions at the town and county level in Grodno guberniya. The scope of police activities included security and public order as well as law enforcement matters (including monitoring the implementation of regulations introduced administrative, judicial and military authorities), which is why the collection includes documentation produced by, among others, the Municipal Police Board, Address Office 1912-1915 in the form of copies of orders, personnel lists, financial documentation. It also contains documentation of the Police Board of Bialystok county 1891-1914 and the Heads of the four Regions of Bialystok County of Grodno Guberniya, including lists of Prussian and Austrian subjects liable to be displaced. It includes statistical material on demography, agriculture, industry, trade in Białystok county, lists of people wanted by the police, cases of people evading military service, lists of people on leave, cases of police supervision, data on German colonists, roads and bridges, harvests and tax collection. The records of the police offices in Grodno guberniya contain lists of inhabitants from 1891 registered as non-permanent population in the following towns: Choroszcz, Goniądz, Gródek, Jasionówka, Knyszyn, Trzcianne and Zabłudów. The censuses contain information about the places where the non-permanent population came from and in which of the towns the people were entered into the register of permanent residents. All family members were listed, as well as their age and occupation or what they did for a living. The lists of inhabitants of the towns of Goniądz, Gródek, Jasionówka, Trzcianne and Zabłudów contain information concerning only Jewish families.
- Archival history:
- During World War I, the police offices were evacuated deep into Russia, and the records were evacuated along with them. Kaluga became the seat of the police offices, as well as other institutions in Białystok. The records survived after the offices were liquidated, as can be surmised from the stamps visible on the records. They were handed over to the Provincial State Archives (now APB) in Białystok in Poland in the 1960s. In December 1963, the records of the Chief of Police from the Białystok County (ref. no. 460 in the acquisitions register) were also returned along with the transport of records recovered from the USSR that were handed over directly to the Provincial State Archives in Białystok at the railway station in Kuźnica. In October 1969, the last group of police records recovered from the USSR was submitted to the Provincial State Archives in Białystok through the Directorate of State Archives. These were the records of the Police Board of Białystok county (ref. no. 690 in the acquisitions register).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Before World War I, there were police units in Grodno Guberniya, and the entire police authority in the district was vested in the Police Board. The capital, and provincial as well as some larger towns were excluded from under its jurisdiction. They had a separate police force (Gorodskoye Politseyskoye Upravlenye). Both the county and town police boards performed their functions through offices and officers in towns and villages. The county police was headed by a deputy and his assistant, while the town police was headed by a police chief and his assistant. Both counties and towns subject to the municipal police were divided into police districts and posts. Higher police authority was vested in the governor and the Police Department of the Ministry of the Interior. The governor supervised the police with the help of the Guberniya Government.
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Police
- Taxation
- Finding aids:
-
A printed inventory is available at the State Archives in Białystok.
Policja Państwowa w Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej Wybrane aspekty organizacji i funkcjonowania, red: Adrian Tyszkiewicz.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Urszula Gierasimiuk; December 2020
