Reporter Mirek Gosney visits Thames Valley Police Museum at Sulhamstead
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00:00More than a century of history preserved in one room, from the most serious crimes to
00:05changing technologies, the Thames Valley Police Museum contains artefacts from all five forces
00:10that merged to form it.
00:12Well I suppose the most interesting item that we've got in the museum without doubt which
00:18made world news is the great train robbery which happened a few years ago when a train
00:25got held up in Buckinghamshire with £2.5 million stolen. I suppose the biggest exhibit
00:33that we've got which brings back my memories was the shooting which happened in Hungerford.
00:42I was involved in that for over six weeks.
00:46But also interesting is how identifying subjects based on evidence left at crime scenes has
00:51changed policing.
00:52So we use aluminium powder, this would be a fingerprint brush. So all it does is that
00:58we just develop over the marks here. Now to remove those we have a tape which is placed
01:09over the mark. It's peeled off and put onto a perspex sheet and there we have the actual
01:23mark.
01:24The museum is currently free to visit on Wednesdays between 10 and 12. Please visit the museum
01:29website to find out more.