Off the 'Cuff

Every year at about this time, we start posting our summer employment opportunities at the Police Museum. Some of our summer positions have not yet had their funding confirmed, but I’m pleased to announce that we’ve posted our first job today here. Part-Time Employment Opportunity Sins of the City Walking Tour Guide Are you an [...]

As you’ve read previously on this page, we’ve hosted lots of different events in our space: film shoots, photo shoots, birthday parties, conference receptions, meetings, adventure races, lectures and even plays. The most unusual, though, would probably be the baby shower we hosted here last weekend. Christina, one of our employees, approached us a month [...]

On the evening of March 16th (6 PM – 9 PM), the Police Museum will be venue to a fundraiser for the Federation of BC Writers. As per their website, here are the details: Come help the Fed celebrate 32 years of getting away with murder. Whether infiltrating schools, divvying up swag, or distributing subversive [...]

WASHINGTON — A congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council finds serious deficiencies in the nation’s forensic science system and calls for major reforms and new research. Rigorous and mandatory certification programs for forensic scientists are currently lacking, the report says, as are strong standards and protocols for analyzing and reporting on evidence.And there [...]

We have a particular interest in blood spatter at our museum, partially because we’re big fans of shows like Dexter, but also because of a space hidden deep in our building’s basement. Hidden away from the publicly accessible areas is a room once called the “Blood Drying Room”. This tile-lined (floor-to-ceiling) room was used to [...]

A few months ago, we received a donation of a bunch of items from the Vancouver Police Revolver Club, including a number of trophies and patches. One of those patches struck us as particularly awesome and so we’ve decided to make a t-shirt out of it. The first run of shirts will be women-only, but [...]

The forensic Spring Break programs that we mentioned earlier are filling up nicely; thanks to all of you who helped spread the word. In addition, the media coverage for them should start in the next few days as our press releases filter out. With a little luck, we’ll be on Breakfast Television in a week [...]