The Rotary Museum of Police and Corrections is a museum in

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, Canada.

Overview

The museum covers the history of

law enforcement Law enforcement is the activity of some members of government who act in an organized manner to enforce the law by discovering, deterring, rehabilitating, or punishing people who violate the rules and norms governing that society. The term en ...

in early Prince Albert and Saskatchewan. The museum is located in the original guardroom of the first

Royal Canadian Mounted Police The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; french: Gendarmerie royale du Canada; french: GRC, label=none), commonly known in English as the Mounties (and colloquially in French as ) is the federal police, federal and national police service of ...

(RCMP) depot in Prince Albert. The building was built around 1888 and in 1985 it opened as a museum. It was modified inside using real prison bars from the original Prince Albert police station. The museum is operated by the Prince Albert Historical Society.

Collections

The museum has artifacts from the RCMP, Prince Albert City Police, provincial correctional facilities, the

Saskatchewan Federal Penitentiary Saskatchewan Penitentiary is a Medium Security Facility with Maximum Security areas. It is located on a walled 20-acre (81,000 m²) parcel of land in the Rural Municipality of Prince Albert No. 461, one kilometre west of Prince Albert, Saskatchew ...

, and the Saskatchewan Provincial Police. Exhibits include RCMP and Prince Albert City Police uniforms, and a

Thompson submachine gun The Thompson submachine gun (also known as the "Tommy Gun", "Chicago Typewriter", "Chicago Piano", “Trench Sweeper” or "Trench Broom") is a blowback-operated, air-cooled, magazine-fed selective-fire submachine gun, invented by United Stat ...

, or "Tommy Gun" which was used by the Saskatchewan Provincial Police. Also on display are weapons made by inmates including a zip gun, shanks, two

sawed-off shotgun A sawed-off shotgun (also called a sawn-off shotgun, short-barreled shotgun, shorty or a boom stick) is a type of shotgun with a shorter gun barrel—typically under —and often a shortened or absent stock. Despite the colloquial term, ...

s, as well as other items such as masks and an alcohol

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made from a fire extinguisher. Various methods of discipline which were used at the Federal Penitentiary are also exhibited, for example a

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, a

cat-o-nine tails The cat o' nine tails, commonly shortened to the cat, is a type of multi-tailed whip or flail that originated as an implement for severe physical punishment, notably in the Royal Navy and British Army, and as a judicial punishment in Britain ...

, and a

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table.

Affiliations

The museum is affiliated with: CMA,

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, and

Virtual Museum of Canada The Digital Museums Canada (DMC; , ''MNC'') is a funding program in Canada "dedicated to online projects by the museum and heritage community," helping organizations to build digital capacity. Administered by the Canadian Museum of History (CMH) ...

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Museum information
{{Saskatchewan parks 1985 establishments in Saskatchewan Museums established in 1985 Museums in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan History museums in Saskatchewan Law enforcement museums in Canada

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