Collection SAWERS - SAWERS, Chief Inspector Matthew (fl 1994-2011)

Key Information

Reference code

SAWERS

Title

SAWERS, Chief Inspector Matthew (fl 1994-2011)

Date(s)

  • 1994-1996 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

2 files

Scope and content

Typescript job description for Deputy Chief of Operations, Western European Union Police Contingent [1995]; one manuscript and nine typescript letters by Sawers to his family relating to his service with Western European Union Police Contingent, Mostar, Bosnia, Feb-Aug 1996; two letters praising Sawers' work as Deputy Chief of Operations, Western European Union Police Contingent, Mostar, from Lt Gen Sir (John) Martin (Carruthers) Garrod, Western European Union Special Envoy in Mostar, and Superintendent S P Jordan, Police Commissioner, Mostar, Aug 1996. Typescript notes entitled 'European Union Administration of Mostar, Bosnia. Briefing for officers serving with the WEU Police', 13 Oct 1994; typescript briefing notes on the history of the Western European Union (WEU), on the WEU element of the Unified Police Force of Mostar (UPFM), Bosnia [1995], and on the recent history of Bosnia-Hercegovina [1995]; typescript 'De-brief notes from the first contingent of UK officers seconded to Mostar' [1995]; typescript report entitled 'Policing in Mostar' by Deputy Chief Constable Clive J R Roche, West Midlands Police Force, 27 Sep 1995; typescript report on the policing operation in Mostar by Rt Hon David (John) Maclean, Minister of State, Home Office, 3 Jan 1996; copy of article entitled 'Peace in Bosnia. The Balkan end-game' from The Economist, 20 Jan 1996.

System of arrangement

The collection is arranged in two files as outlined above.

General Information

Name of creator

(1994-2011)

Biographical history

Chief Inspector, West Midlands Police Force; served as Deputy Chief of Operations, Western European Union (WEU) Police Contingent, Mostar, Bosnia, Feb-Aug 1996.

Custodial history

Presented to the Centre by the family in two accessions in 1998.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Sep 1999

Alternative identifier(s)

Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Accession area