Research

Scope and Content Note

This series contains police blotters that were generated and originally kept by approximately 170 local State Police units. Blotters are a daily record of the activities of a Troop Headquarters or substation. They are maintained on an annual basis in bound volumes. The information recorded in the blotters usually concerns only the comings and goings of police officers, communication received and sent, and other routine activity. Descriptions of people and events are rare and when they do occur, are usually the verbatim report of a citizen, another police agency, or the State Police teletype system. The entries in the blotter are in short narrative form of usually one or two sentences and are factual in tone.

13445-20: This accretion contains records from Troop G, which serves the counties of Albany, Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, and Washington.