Metropolitan Police Heritage Centre
 The Centre's 2009-2020 home in the annexe to Empress State Building. | |
  Location within Greater London | |
| Established | 1949 |
|---|---|
| Location | Woolwich, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°29′37″N 0°02′43″E / 51.493570998838536°N 0.04535874914456343°ECoordinates: 51°29′37″N 0°02′43″E / 51.493570998838536°N 0.04535874914456343°E |
| Public transit access | Woolwich Dockyard railway station |
| Website | https://www.met.police.uk/museums |
The Metropolitan Police Heritage Centre is the museum and archive of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), conserving and curating documents, books, objects and uniforms relating to the organisation's history.[1][2][a] It has also been known as the Police Museum, Bow Street Museum, Metropolitan Police Museum and the Metropolitan Police Historical Collection over the course of its existence. It and the Crime Museum are both run by a team within Centrally Delivered Support Services, itself part of MO11.[1][5]
The first appeal for objects was put out by Chief Superintendent Arthur Rowlerson of E Division in 1949.[6] The resulting collection was housed at Bow Street Police Station until the 1980s, before being placed in storage until July 2009, when it was re-housed in a new gallery space and research room in an annexe to Empress State Building, an MPS office building in west London.[6][7] With the planned change of use of Empress State Building to a counter-terrorism hub,[8] the gallery space permanently closed in early 2020 and the research room is due to reopen at other Metropolitan Police buildings in Sidcup and Woolwich Dockyard by the end of spring 2022.[1]
Notes[]
- ^ Most of the official records produced by the Metropolitan Police in or before 2012 are instead at The National Archives under the reference MEPO,[3] with some also filed under HO - this is because until the creation of MOPAC in 2012 the Metropolitan Police fell under the Home Office and therefore its records were included in the Public Records Act 1958.[4]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Official website". Metropolitan Police Service. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ "Friends of the Metropolitan Police Historical Collection - Heritage Centre".
- ^ "Records of the Metropolitan Police Office (1803-2012)". The National Archives. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "How to Search for Metropolitan Police Records". The National Archives. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "Police Careers - Heritage Centre Assistant".
- ^ a b "Londoners get first look at police museum". Evening Standard. 22 June 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ Campbell, Duncan (22 June 2009). "New museum looks back at 200 years of policing in London". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
- ^ "First phase of new state-of-the-art counter terror centre opens in London". ITV. 29 June 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
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