WEST MIDLANDS Police have opened a new museum for Coventry Police in the city centre.
The museum was opened yesterday, September 4, within Coventry City Council House and has a range of information, pictures and historical items.
Guests including chief constable Craig Guildford, the police and crime commissioner Simon Foster, Coventry councillors, Coventry mayor and Coventry police commander attended the opening ceremony.
Olive Parsons, who is the sister of a West Midlands Police officer who documented policing during the Blitz was also at the opening and her dad was a police officer in Coventry.
There has been a museum in Coventry since 1957 which was originally based in the basement of Coventry Police Station.
Coventry was named a City of Culture in 2021, and the museum was moved to a premises on Hertford Street on a temporary basis.
The new museum is open Thursday and Friday between 10am and 2pm.
