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The police museum is a repository of things police
The John Campbell Police Museum.
Georgetown hosts the majority of museums in Guyana, each of which platforms a different aspect of Guyana’s historical remnants. A museum is not just a museum, it has a history and a purpose behind each and every artefact placed there.
Yet with the access of historical information that can be beneficial to all Guyanese, the John Campbell Police Museum has drifted from the minds of the public.
The John Campbell Police Museum is located on the first floor and western end of the auditorium at the Felix Austin Police College, Eve-Leary. The institution has on display uniforms, musical instruments, photographs and other police artefacts of present time and also dating back to colonial times.
In recognition of the work of John Campbell, a former Assistant Commissioner of Police, the museum was named after him. Campbell re-organised the institution in 1975.
Recognitions were given to the some police officers whose vision was to ensure that the history of the police force was preserved through the museum, which was first housed at the police depot, now referred to the Tactical Services Unit (T.S.U)
During 1975, the facility was relocated to the Criminal Investigation Department (C.I.D) where it remained until 1988.
A look at the museum between 1948 and 1975 gave the impression that it has never been a priority of the force. At this point, the late John Campbell who was at the time Research, Planning and Publication officer, took the initiative to re-organise the museum.
As a result of the long period of inactivity, many of the artefacts were either damaged or suffered some degree of decay.
In this circumstance, John Campbell set himself the task of contracting divisional officers throughout the country with a view to replacing the depleted collection. Success to some extent attended his effort.
The facility was now given a new lease on life. Senior Superintendent, Henry Greene, at that time, was in charge of research, planning and publication, assumed the responsibility for the museum’s rehabilitation programme.
In 1989 the institution was removed from the C.I.D headquarters to its present location. Consequent upon the museum being located at the college it fell under the administration’s control of the commandant, Assistant Commissioner L.Gilkes.
To concur with the force’s 150th anniversary celebrations, the museum was opened to the public on July 24, 1989, five days a week.
In 1993, the fanatical circumstances which have been associated with the police museum during its sixty-odd years of existence, showed a profound determination on the part of those Officers to put a premium of preservation of the history of the police force throughout this unit, the museum.
After twenty months of preparation, Mrs. V. Campbell, wife of the late John Campbell, officially opened the John Campbell Police Museum on Thursday, October 14, 1993.
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