LibGuides: Police: Useful Websites and Finding Images and Statistics

Websites, Images and statistics

Cleveland Police
HMICFRS
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services
Home Office
National Police Chiefs Council
Skills for Justice

Occasionally you may need to use images in your assignments. The Library has access to both moving image databases and still images databases. For more information on image resources go to the following factsheet: Images, Moving images including film and television and Audio resources

Still Images: online resources:

British Library Images Online | The Picture Library of the British Library
Collections of images suitable for use in Higher Education, including the Design Council Slide Collection, The Design Council Archive, Imperial War Museum Concise Art Collection, and the Women’s Library Suffrage Banner Collection.

VADS
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VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) is an online resource for the visual arts.

Moving Images: online resources:

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
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Due to COVID-19 you can now access BoB in the EU
BoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education. Our academically-focused system allows staff and students at subscribing institutions to record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels, and search our extensive archive.

Users will need to register when logging in to BoB for the first time, and then complete registration by clicking on the link in the verification email. The purpose of registration is for access error reports and account migration.
Screen Online
Screenonline is an online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive, and several hours of recorded interviews with film and TV personalities.

Off-campus access is not possible for this database
News on Screen
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A database of British cinema newsreels from 1910 to 1979. Contains 160,000 records from 21 newsreels and cinemagazines, 80,000 digitised newsreel production documents, and a wide range of information resources, including oral history recordings, film availability sources and online articles. 40,000 records link to free low-resolution downloadable copies from the British Pathe web site.

Statistics

These links provide statistics useful to your subject area.

Gov.uk: Research and statistics
OECD: Statistics Portal
Statistics of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Office for National Statistics
Tees Valley Data Insights
Ministry of Justice Statistics
Including prison population statistics
Criminal justice statistics in England and Wales
Quarterly update of statistics on criminal offences dealt with by the criminal justice system in England and Wales.