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The museum also contains a large collection of over 2000 items of police insignia, headgear and uniform from around the world. Part of this collection was donated to the museum by one of its curators, Alastair
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Museum, but as this collection was not open to the public, it decided to open a museum that was free for the public in 2002 so that it could share the history of the city and country's first police force. In 2008, after the closing of the
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