Mayor Michael P. Bell today joined Toledo Police Chief Michael Navarre and the Board of the Toledo Police Museum to announce the reopening of the museum at Ottawa Park. The historical museum will soon be located in the former Ottawa Park Nature Center.
The Toledo Police Museum was previously housed in the first floor of the Safety Building in downtown Toledo, but was shuttered to make way for expansion of the Records Section in the mid-1990’s. Since that time the artifacts have been kept in storage. The opening of the Ottawa Park location will mark the first time the historic displays will be on view for the public in nearly two decades.
The Toledo Police Museum will be overseen by a Board of Trustees comprised of current and retired police officers including representatives of the Toledo Police Patrolmen’s Association, Toledo Police Command Officers Association, African-American Police Officers League, Toledo Police Retiree’s Association, and the Fraternal Order of Police along with representatives of the Ottawa Jermain Parks Advisory Board and local historians and librarians.
The museum is expected to be open to the public in early 2011 after the building has been prepared and the artifacts properly inventoried. Updates about the progress of the museum will be available online at www.toledopolicemuseum.com. For more information, contact the Board President, Officer Beth Cooley in the Toledo Police Planning Section at 419.245.3225 or beth.cooley@toledo.oh.gov.
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