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Image: PC Norwell Roberts on duty at Bow Street © Metropolitan Police Service Ello ello ello, what s all this then? A museum about the police opens its (cell) doors in London early 2021 and it s inside one of the city s first police stations. Station cells and working rooms of the former Bow Street Police Station and Magistrates Court, in Covent Garden, have been transformed into galleries telling the story of the Bow Street Runners the 18th century precursors to today s Metropolitan Police. The old cells have been turned into museum galleries. Image: Cristian Barnett Among Bow Street Police Museum s collections will be early equipment used by the Runners, including a cutlass and a replica uniform (its blue double-breasted coat and red waistcoat gave officers the nickname robin red breasts ).

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