Scope and Contents

The records of the Department of Police include:

• Reports, including arrests
• Personnel records
• Minutes of the Board of Police
• Certificates of arrest for runaway enslaved people
• Financial Reocrds
• Correspondence
• Personnel records
• Messages received and sent from the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph

Scope and Contents

Records include:

• Correspondence, Incoming and Outgoing
• Records of the City Pound
• Records of the Indigent Insane
• Reports from Parish Prison and Police Jail
• Permits
• Financial Records
• Occupants of Stalls in Public Markets

Scope and Contents The majority of records are financial in nature except for one volume of correspondence and one volume of arrests. Although the department was required to keep various books of record, including "complaints against officers and members, and the judgments of the board thereupon; of time lost by officers and members; of accounts showing the amount of moneys received and expended, and how and for what purposes received and expended; of the proceedings of the board; of stolen money and property...

Scope and Contents Researchers should note that the City Archives does not hold full case files; rather, the records of arrest and offense reports offer a general summary of events and a brief description of arrestee, if applicable. Records of the New Orleans Police Department include: Arrests Offense Reports Homicide Reports Administrative Records Financial Records Mugshots Bertillon Cards A number of NOPD records are...

Scope and Contents

Records of the Commisarries and City Guard. Includes arrest records of enslaved people, soldiers, and sailors; an early census of the 2nd District of the City; and reports of the Captain of the Guard.