News

2024

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

  15th
  Jul
• Women in Policing: Segregation, discrimination, acceptance and change – a first-hand account from Devon and Cornwall Constabulary’s first female Police motorcyclist

  12th
  Jun
• Devon Constabulary wartime secrets revealed for D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations

  5th
  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
• ‘To you, Bill..’ Much-missed Trustee is remembered with a permanent plaque at the new mini-Museum

  22nd
  Apr
• High Sheriff of Devon presents an award to the Museum volunteers for their ‘great and valuable services to the community’

  3rd
  Apr
• Tavistock mini-Museum opening times, 2024

  26th
  Mar
• Celebrations as mini Museum officially opens in Tavistock: ‘It is fantastic that Devon and Cornwall’s policing heritage is being preserved in this way’

  7th
  Mar
• Milestone anniversary of Cornish mum’s unsolved murder sparks a lasting hope her killer will be caught

  5th
  Dec
• Volunteers needed to delve into the policing history, heritage and true crimes of Devon and Cornwall

  25th
  Oct
• Free craft sessions for families as Museum of Policing in Devon & Cornwall celebrates Heritage Open Days 2023

  6th
  Sep