Chennai: Tamilnadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Tuesday inaugurate a police museum, set up at a cost of Rs 6.47 crore.
Spread over 24,000 sqft area and two floors, the museum was inaugurated at the old Chennai police Commissioner’s office, a heritage building at Egmore area in the city.
The museum as formally opened to the public from Tuesday. While the entry for public would be free till the end of this month, a nominal charge of Rs five and Rs ten would be collected for children and elders from 1 October.
However, the entry will be free for all government school students. Among the exhibits displayed in the museum are vehicles used by police personnel, uniforms, music equipment, seized idols, counterfeit currency printing machine, bombs, explosive detection equipment, model lock up room and guns used by the police in the past and present.
The historical documents linked to Tamilnadu police department, models of medals given to police personnel for their services, old telegram sending equipment are also on display at the museum.