File includes related correspondence and memos regarding Richard Apostle's police study in connection with the Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution; the Opening Statement by Chief Justice T. Alexander Hickman; policing and population data; a handwritten agenda for a meeting between Briggs, Clairmont and Stenning; and several page of notes and questions.
File also includes memos to Sydney police officers; an agreement between the Board of Police Commissioners and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 758 (Police Department); newspaper clippings; a memorandum summarizing Richard Apostle's report on the Sydney Police Force, 1971; and research notes.
Series comprises records created or collected by Richard Apostle documenting his research on public policing in Nova Scotia for the Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution. Record types include correspondence; interview transcripts; provincial police department and RCMP surveys; police officer information sheets; police training manuals and annual reports; statistics; newspaper clippings and secondary research materials; and a response by the Canadian government to the inquiry and reports.
File contains a court transcript of the testimony of William Urquhart; handwritten notes by Richard Apostle regarding the Sydney police witnesses; a memorandum by Richard Apostle summarizing the relevant information from testimony before the Commission about the Sydney Police Force in 1971; and a memo to Richard Apostle from John E.S. Briggs outlining a "roadmap" to the testimony of Sydney Police witnesses.