- Address: Royal New Zealand Police College / Papakowhai Rd, Porirua, Papakowhai 5024, New Zealand;
- Website: police.govt.nz;
- Phone: 4 4-238 3141;
- Visiting: from 8 to 17 hours without days off;
- Cost: free of charge
Traveling to New Zealand , be sure to take time to visit the Police Museum of this country. Tourists secretly call it one of the best museums of the state, and experienced critics consider one of the ten most interesting police museums of the world known to modernity.
History of the Police Museum
In 1908, the Government of New Zealand issued a memorandum, according to which all police stations of the country undertook to send material evidence, figured in "high-profile" crimes in the country's capital. So began the New Zealand Police Museum, opened in Wellington , which became the prototype of the famous Crimean Museum of England - Scotland Yard.
The police museum existed in the capital until 1981. Later, officials decided to transfer it to the building of the Police College of the city of Porirua.
Museum composition for a long time was inaccessible to ordinary inhabitants and only in 1996 were opened some of the halls. The global modernization of the museum, organized in 2009 by local authorities, finally gave an opportunity to contemplate the entire collection, the formation of which was spent a century.
Why was the Police Museum created in New Zealand?
The main goal that faces the Police Museum of New Zealand in our time is to use the accumulated experience to train future police officers in all the professions of the profession.
Also, museum exhibits are the subject of lectures, seminars, excursions, designed to tell the uneven-aged public about the history of the country's law enforcement system. Workers of the Museum are trying to create a friendly atmosphere of communication and convince young tourists of the importance of trusting relations between citizens and human rights activists.
Information for tourists
The New Zealand Police Museum is open for visits every day from 08:00 to 17:00. Free admission. For a comprehensive study of the history of the museum, it is better to join the tour group. If you just decide to pass the time in the walls of the Police Museum, then you can completely do without a guide and independently walk through its halls.
How to get to the sights?
You can get to the Museum on city buses No. 236, N6, which take you to a public transport stop called RNZ Police College - Papakowhai Road. After boarding you will be offered a walking tour, which will take no more than 10 minutes. Time lovers can take a taxi or rent a car.
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