The Museum is entered from the main Police Barracks Quadrangle.

 

  The First Museum we will visit is on our right as we enter...






This is the "Bob Potts Gallery"  looking to our right. 
From left to right we can see  a Police Call Box; Exhibit 1,
Exhibit 2, Gold Escorts Exhibit.



Looking to our left in the "Bob Potts Gallery" we can see a policeman
 with his bicycle;
a Women Police Exhibit;
Exhibit 3 and Exhibit 4.





To your right as we enter the "Bob Potts Gallery",
you will  see an exhibit on the first Law Enforcement Officers
 in our State  the Adelaide Royal Marines.

Further into this Gallery you will come across an exhibit dedicated
to the Gold Escorts of 1852.   LINK

Information and photographs  of the first days of
the Thebarton Police Barracks.



A Mounted Constable and his horse displayed with early uniform.

An early police Call Box - one of the first forms of communications from the field.  Each officer was issued with a Call-Box key.

Open Call-Box showing the internal telephone which was a direct line to the Police Communications Centre in Adelaide.

LINKS

Museum Gallery 2
Museum Gallery 3
Museum Gallery 4