Inside Thames Valley Police Museum

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.