Cardiff City Police
{{Short description|Police force in Wales (1836–1969)}}
Cardiff Borough Police was a police force for the Borough of Cardiff, formed in 1836.{{Cite web|url=http://british-police-history.uk/show_nav.cgi?force=cardiff_borough&tab=0&nav=alpha|title=Cardiff Borough Police 1836-1905|publisher=British Police Historical Society}} It was later renamed Cardiff City Police in 1905 when Cardiff attained city status.{{Cite web|url=http://british-police-history.uk/show_nav.cgi?force=cardiff_city&tab=0&nav=alpha|title=Cardiff City Police 1905-1969|publisher=British Police Historical Society}} Notable events in its history included dealing with the 1919 race riots in the city.{{Cite web|url=https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/from-cardiff-to-the-caribbean-the-1919-race-riots/|title=From Cardiff to the Caribbean: The 1919 Race Riots|publisher=The National Archives}}{{Cite web|url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9342011|title=
Racial riots in South Wales: report of the Chief Constable, Cardiff City Police, regarding rioting in Newport, Cardiff, Barry and Swansea 6 to 13 June 1919 (CO 323/816/40)|publisher=The National Archives}}
It became defunct in 1969 on its merger into the South Wales Constabulary.{{Cite web|url=https://swplive.blob.core.windows.net/wordpress-uploads/2019/05/SWP-50-book.pdf|title=South Wales Police - 50 Years of Keeping South Wales Safe, page 4|publisher=South Wales Police}} Its archives are held at Glamorgan Archives{{Cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2018-11-03/one-thousand-people-came-rioting-down-the-street-reliving-a-notorious-chapter-in-cardiffs-past/|title='One thousand people came rioting down the street': Reliving a notorious chapter in Cardiff’s past|date=3 November 2018|publisher=ITV News}} and it is also represented in the South Wales Police Museum.{{Cite web|url=http://www.south-wales.police.uk/docs/MuseumLeafletEng.pdf|title=South Wales Police Museum|access-date=2020-02-27|archive-date=2007-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020114558/http://www.south-wales.police.uk/docs/MuseumLeafletEng.pdf|url-status=dead}}