The Police Museum is preparing two new exhibitions. In December, an online exhibition called The police of independent Finland will be launched, and early 2018 will see the opening of an exhibition on police training, which is celebrating its centennial.
Development of the Finnish police from feared officials in a period of turmoil to an everyday source of safety
The online exhibition The police of independent Finland , to be opened in December, provides a complement to a current exhibition at the Police Museum titled Public order collapses 1917 - When hatred became a virtue and revenge a merit . A century ago, police officers were feared officials, but they have since become an everyday source of safety, widely trusted by the general public. The online exhibition provides a concise general account of how the Finnish police forces have evolved from the turmoil at the beginning of national independence to the present day. The exhibition includes an interesting collection of about a hundred photographs that describe changes in police work and the society this work is carried out in.
How would you do on the police school entrance exam?
Next year will mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of national police training and the establishment of the State Police School. What was it like to be a student at the first Finnish police school, which was located within the Fortress of Suomenlinna? Was Ville murdered in the props class of the Police Academy in Otaniemi, Espoo? How were motorcycle police officers trained in the 1980s?
The exhibition Formally qualified - a century of Finnish police education , to be opened at the Police Museum in early 2018, will answer this and many other fascinating questions.
“We will describe the progress from the earliest days of vocational training for the police at the end of the 19th century to the present-day Police University College,” says Juha Vitikainen , who leads the work on the exhibition.
The new exhibition provides information on the history of police training, how it has been organised, and on the selection criteria and methods for recruiting police officers over the years.
“This multifaceted exhibition will echo the voices of police students and teachers alike. Museum visitors can listen to memoirs, watch old educational films and challenge themselves as they get to try how they would succeed at an old-fashioned entrance exam,” Vitikainen reveals.
Are you tall enough to become a police officer? How many pull-ups can you do? Are your reading skills up to the challenge? Find out at the Police Museum next year! The museum is located in the Tampere suburb of Hervanta, adjacent to the Police University College.
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