News

2025

• Policing the Blitz & World War Two

  21st
  Aug
• The A30 Protest and “Swampy”

  12th
  Aug
• ANNOUNCEMENT – Annual General Meeting – 10th September 2025

  25th
  Jul
• A Policeman’s Lot Is Not A Happy One

  17th
  Jan
• Women in Policing: Segregation, discrimination, acceptance and change – a first-hand account from Devon and Cornwall Constabulary’s first female Police motorcyclist

  12th
  Jun
• Museum Volunteers Deep Dive into the Policing History, Heritage and True Crimes of Devon and Cornwall

  25th
  Oct
• Devon in the 1920’s – the Infancy of Roads Policing

  20th
  May
• Policing the Home Front

  8th
  May
• Devon Constabulary wartime secrets revealed

  3rd
  Dec
• Exeter police boxes and pillars: Museum archive reveals a cleaning clash ‘misunderstanding’

  25th
  Mar
• Torquay Casino Murders 50 years on: Retired officer remembers finding on-duty PC Dennis Smith shot dead by a rampaging gunman

  24th
  Jan