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The series consists of records created by T.W.S. Parsons. Parsons wrote extensively on topics mostly related to policing and to British Columbia history, including diaries covering three decades, addresses to police conventions, radio scripts, and articles for periodicals, as well as some fictional stories. He also wrote about his travels.

Records include correspondence, official and private, including letters relating to his work with the Boy Scouts and the Queen Alexandra Solarium; diaries, account, and appointment books, 1931-1955; certificates, membership cards; scrapbooks; notes re Fort George Hazleton Police District; notes and correspondence on various police cases; report on Northern Patrol, 1935; notes on Tahltan bear dogs; horoscope; manuscripts of articles on police matters; manuscripts re radio plays. Also includes maps of Tweedsmuir Park, Alaska and various district maps.
The ca. 400 photographs include scenes of the BCPP, Indigenous people, Parsons' Pacific trip, Canadian Pacific Railway, Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway and Tweedsmuir park.