News

2025

• Uniform – an Essential Part of the Job

  21st
  Jan
• A Policeman’s Lot Is Not A Happy One

  17th
  Jan
• Hands-on opportunities with our collection

  17th
  Jan
• Devon Constabulary wartime secrets revealed

  3rd
  Dec
• Women in Policing: Segregation, discrimination, acceptance and change – a first-hand account from Devon and Cornwall Constabulary’s first female Police motorcyclist

  12th
  Jun
• Exeter police boxes and pillars: Museum archive reveals a cleaning clash ‘misunderstanding’

  25th
  Mar
• Torquay Casino Murders 50 years on: Retired officer remembers finding on-duty PC Dennis Smith shot dead by a rampaging gunman

  24th
  Jan
• Del Crowley tribute

  26th
  Feb
• Farewell to Steve Pearce QPM

  19th
  Dec
• Excellence in Policing Awards: Museum supports ‘everyday heroines and heroes affecting real change in our communities’

  15th
  Jul
• Volunteers needed to delve into the policing history, heritage and true crimes of Devon and Cornwall

  25th
  Oct
• VIDEO: Royal connections – Museum of Policing in Devon and Cornwall celebrates the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla with archive finds

  3rd
  May