Biographical/historical information

The City of Greenville Police Department is a nationally accredited law enforcement agency. Due to lack of records, a complete history of the department is unavailable. The following timeline offers what details are known from local newspaper records.

The City of Greenville Police Department is a nationally accredited law enforcement agency. Due to lack of records, a complete history of the department is unavailable. The following timeline offers what details are known from local newspaper records.

Source: Roger Kammerer. For more details, please see Kammerer's complete article, "A History of the Greenville Police Department" in the January 23rd –February 6th, 2008, edition of Greenville Times. Back issues of Greenville Times can be found in Joyner Library's North Carolina Collection.

Scope and arrangement

The collection consists of 470 slides and two compact discs (copies of slides) of images that document various activities of City of Greenville, North Carolina Police Department. These activities include public relations, riot training, bomb disposal, civil defense, traffic control, inspections, trial and court procedures, training programs and first aid procedures. The material also includes images of (apparently staged) car accidents and fires, as well as group and single photographs of police officers. Also included in folder 1076.1 is a brief email sent in 2004 from Stuart Savage, Senior Writer, Daily Reflector to the donor of the collection. In the message, Savage identifies several Civil Defense officers contained in a slide found in sleeve 1076.1.a.09. The compact disc liner of one of cds included a printed photograph of Master Polic Officer David Nichols with the note that Nichols died while on duty from a heart attack.

Administrative information

Custodial History

August 4, 2006, 0.25 cubic feet; Records (1961-1970, 2004) of photographic slides illustrating police operations, including inspections, personnel, court and trial procedures, training programs, including first aid training, riot training, etc.; letter to Stuart Savage, Senior Writer, The Daily Reflector; also 2 compact discs containing 197 digital images (jpegs) of the slides. Approx 480 Black and; White and Color slides. 1 compact disc deaccessioned (7/21/2023). Donor: Joe David Friday, Sgt., Investigations Division, Greenville Police Department.

January 4, 2017, (unprocessed addition #1), 0.56 cubic feet; Included are Greenville (North Carolina) Police Department color and black and white photographs (1927-early 2012) and a few negatives of Bureau of Identification crime scenes, forensic scenes, GPD members, officers being sworn in, police equipment, training, Citizens Police Academy and Safety School. Also included are manuals, brochures, newsletters, swearing in programs, photocopies of GPD related clippings, CDs of a memorial service, documents related to the murder of a police officer (1952), and a description (2004) of an execution at Central Prison. 1 compact disc labeled GPD 1949 Dept. Photo. deaccessioned. Gift of Joe David Friday, Jr.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Joe David Friday, Jr.

Processing information

Encoded by Mark Custer, January 4, 2008

Processed by Kelly Hardy, April 2007 Dale Sauter 2008

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.

Existence and Location of Originals

The collection is undergoing evaluation by the District Attorney for confidential information. We may or may not recieve portions back. The digital surrogates of some of the photos are currently all we have.

Key terms

Corporate Names

Greenville (N.C.). Police Department

Topical

Crime scenes--North Carolina--Greenville--Photographs
Police training--North Carolina--Greenville
Police--North Carolina--Greenville

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