This week The Police Museum introduced QR (Quick Response) codes to display cases on the museum floor. QR codes are a type of barcode that when scanned by smart mobile phones, will link to a website, document, audio or video clip.
In 2004 retired Assistant Commissioner Greg Early recorded interviews with a group of retired police officers as part of an oral histories project for The Police Museum. Suzanne Miller undertook a similar project in 2007 when she interviewed Muriel Bath and Cecil
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Smith. Short clips from these interviews will now be available to listen to on this blog over the coming weeks. QR codes will also be on display in the Museum to allow visitors to listen to the audio clips via the blog site.
The Police Museum would like to than our Volunteer Kellie-Anne Blissett for the work she put into this project. She spent a considerable amount of time copying the oral history recordings to MP3, choosing segments to profile and writing the accompanying labels.
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