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This subseries includes documents referring to subjects such as bandits, gangs and murderers; events of wounding, robbery and rape; criminal statistics tables and events’ reports; activities of the communities and the follow-up of them; the control of the occupying forces and the follow-up of these occupying forces’ treatments of the public and mistreatments of the janissaries and state officials; the procedure about the janissary forces (appointments of commanders, etc.); activities of the National Forces (Kuva-yı Milliye); activities of the enemy navies; and Greeks’ and Armenians’ violations and rape of Muslim people in various parts of Anatolia.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are 1333-1338.

This catalogue includes tables of general crimes and criminal statistics as well as procedures about those who were treated as suspicious, crimes like fraud, pickpocketing, files about criminals involved into these crimes, the chasing and arresting of fugitives and about the sending of the unemployed, vagabonds and beggars to their homelands or proper regions, as well as the lists of weapons seized from the public.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are 1333-1338.

This sub-subseries includes documents regarding election regulation; state of the court officers; distortion of the macadamized roads and paths; information regarding some accidents; information regarding Latin community; officers’ retirement; municipalities’ duties; and some laws issued.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are 1329-1342.

This series includes the public’s presentations about various issues, ranging from the collection of grain tax to property suit, debt collection, tax collection, enteoff, transportation of goods and cereals as well as writings regarding the decrees and ordinances written to the vizier, governor-general, provincial governor, kadi and sub-district governor and the letters written to Supreme Council (Divan-ı Humayun) by the officials in the provinces such as vizier, governor-general and provincial governor.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1256-1341.

This subseries includes the lists of murders statistics, prepared and sent to the centre by the provinces every month; reports about the political events; procedures about events like murder, wounding and robbery and about the criminals who commit those things; janissary procedures; and documents on fights between the janissary and bandits; building new patrols; and following and arresting fugitives.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are 1329-1332.

This catalogue (sub-series) includes documents about intelligence and espionage. The procedures about the persons and the documents about the private and special communication; reports about political crimes and enquiries on suspicious persons’ identities
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are 1332-1340.

This catalogue (sub-series) includes the following documents: circular letters regarding the general security, reports of the political crime, petitions from the exiled persons (=requests) and prisoners for amnesty, procedures for telegraph and communication, awarding of the persons who proved to be useful in some events and the lists indicating the population of the provinces and districts.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are 1332-1341.

This subseries includes the writings about the Ottoman State in the local and foreign press; the procedures for the events of murder, wounding, robbery, fraud and pickpocketing and the chasing of criminals and the chasing and arresting of anarchists as well as vagabonds and beggars; it also includes enquiry files about troublemakers, suspicious persons or people who schemed against government; surveillance of theatrical activities, communities and charities’ activities; finally, one can also find investigation documents about events like suicide, fire and drowning.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are 1328-1329.

This subseries includes documents about people travelling through the country and outside boundaries; besides lists of passengers, travel certificates, reports and information about their number, nationality and identity, there are security regulations explaining procedures for the travelling passengers.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are 1332-1341.

This subseries includes documents from the Affairs of Foreigners (Ecanib Kalemi) Office, which is devoted to investigate on the foreigners‘ identities and the procedures regarding their expulsion and dismissal. The documents are divided into two groups: the first group includes the official correspondence. The second group includes the copies of proclamations that members of foreign countries who travel or change their places for any reason within the Ottoman State deliver to inform the security chief office where they were, and the incident notes filled by them in the cases of move, birth, and death.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this subseries are 1330-1341.