The city police Museum is where he should be, ' in the city, inside the police station on wood street. His collection is just one room, but it is rich, varied and very interesting.

Don't confuse this Museum with the so-called Black Museum of Scotland Yard, closed to outsiders. The city police is not the same that the London police. Since ancient times, the "square mile" has its own forces of law and order. Some researchers conduct their lineage from the Roman era, indicating that old helmet "Bobby" is shaped like the Roman military helmets. It is a fact that the area on wood street built on the site of the ancient fortress, which was based and police forces of the Romans.

Until 1839 the rule of law in the city was guarded by day and night sheriffs. Then the day police and night watch were United, but retained independence from the London police. Working in one of the largest financial centers of the world, city guards have accumulated vast experience of fraud and economic crimes. The police there is a special form, the Commissioner for special occasions courtier wears a uniform with gold aglets and a cocked hat with feathers of a white Swan.

It is a collection of police uniforms, since 1829, is the brightest part of the Museum collection. An impressive exhibition dedicated to the Victorian era; it contains the tools and weapons of criminals, as well as the form, batons and communications police: for pre-1886 used wooden rattles. Later pumps were replaced by whistles. In the middle of the twentieth century, the city police have already used portable radios, according to current views, rather cumbersome – you can see them on a separate stand.

Judging by the Museum, particularly serious crimes in the city occur infrequently. A separate stand talks about "murder on Houndsditch" and "the siege of Sidney street". In 1910, a gang of robbers tried to break into a jewelry store on Hounsditch, the owner of a neighboring store called the police. In the shootout killed three guards (the Museum has on display a model of a jewelry store, where there were skirmishes). In January 1911, the police tracked down the gang and laid siege house Sidney street, where the robbers were hiding. The battle lasted six hours, the building was on fire but arrived interior Minister Winston Churchill banned the firefighters to extinguish the fire.

The Museum displays old photo of Churchill at the head of the police squad inspects the battlefield. Instinct did not fail a convinced anti-Communist: the gang consisted of Latvian left-wing radicals, including someone named Jacob Peters. To the dismay of Churchill, the Peters court acquitted for lack of evidence. Six years later, in Soviet Russia, Peters became one of the founders of the Cheka.