A visit to the police museum
25 Jun 2025
Melbourne Bearbrass Probus Club had a great morning recently at the newly modernised Victoria Police Museum in Melbourne.
The free museum traverses Victorian police history since colonial days, with plenty of information about police horses and the K9 dog squads. Members learnt that police horses are trained to push gently into unruly crowds by being given a human-sized rubber ball to nudge from one end of the police stables to the other.
Exhibits include the many dramas and tragedies of police work, especially the bombing of the Russell Street headquarters in 1986, Victoria's first introduction to a mass terror attack.
The group enjoyed lunch at the nearby Royal Melbourne Hotel, seated in what used to be the bluestone prison corridor. They thought this was only appropriate for the outing.
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