Glasgow Police Museum

The museum was created by the Glasgow Police Heritage Society, a group of retired police officers from the former City of Glasgow Police. The Society had helped establish the Strathclyde Police Museum, but as this collection was not open to the public, it decided to open a museum that was free for the public in 2002 so that it could share the history of the city and country's first police force. In 2008, after the closing of the Central Police office where the museum was housed, the museum was moved to a repurposed office building on Bell Street.

The museum describes the city's history with crime and the creation of the City of Glasgow Police in 1800 following the Glasgow Police Act, until it was merged into the Strathclyde Police in 1975. This history is shared via various artifacts that detail the people and events that contributed to the creation and development of the police force, such as official government documentation, newspaper articles, images, photographs and fictional texts, uniforms, weapons and other policing-related objects.