The City Of London Police Museum

This is an amazing small museum for families.

Although smallish I rather enjoyed this small museum located within the Guildhall building complex. The museum shows a brief history of the City of London police and presents several artifacts, objects. Worth a visit if in the area.

City of London Police Museum is a museum dedicated to the Police force in London. The museum shares the same building has that of the Guildhall Library. The museum charts the history of the London police from it;s very beginning as an ad-hoc group of glorified night watchmen to the professional force it is today. Some of the best known events associated with the force such as Jack the Ripper murders, terrorist bombings and riots are well-documented. There's also a good amount of information about different divisions of the modern police force such as dog handlers, mounted police, forensics etc.

There's a lot of written information, but for those who prefer to listen, there's free audio guides with commentary from current and former police officers. Nice to hear from first hand experience and a nice change from standard narrators.

The museum is nice and compact and it should be possible to get through it in under an hour. If visiting, do check the opening times. It's open every weekday, but not open every weekend.

Nice for a 10 minute break after a full day of serious business meeting in the city. Counterfeit money. Sadly no fake passports. Real murder weapons. Surprised to find a GuideID audio tour Company is from my home town Deventer. Works fine.

Very interesting museum , not very large but full of fascinating artifact's. The story of the London city police is told through the exhibits, we spent about an hour and quarter there.

One of the many hidden gems scattered around in London. It's free and probably takes about 20mins to look around.

Cool little museum that you shouldn't miss. Like all London museums, it's free. It's inside an admin building. There's no check-in or anything like that. Just a converted large room. There are cool pieces of London history and it talks about events that defined how they operate. Cool place and will definitely recommend it. It takes around 30 minutes to go through everything.

The museum was really interesting. Small inside so won't take you too long to get around.