Sindh Police Museum: Preserving a glorious past
While the museum has preserved the first high-profile FIR lodged in Badin district of Sindh against a theft of Rs 40, it also features a display of biographic images recording the marvels of Sindh polices British officers. Photo: Dunya News
(Dunya News) – Preserving the history of the Sindh Police, a museum stands in Karachi’s Garden Headquarters glorifying a past not much known.
The museum displaying the past of Sindh police features medals, weapons, uniforms and historic achievements of the department including relics that present the developments made within Sindh’s police department overtime.
Not just this, but while the museum has preserved the first high-profile FIR lodged in Badin district of Sindh against a theft of Rs. 40, it also features a display of biographic images recording the marvels of Sindh police’s British officers.
Established by Governor Sir Charles Napier of the British Empire in 1843, Sindh’s police department was an exemplary institution back in the colonial times.
Preserving the heritage of Sindh police was the brainchild of former Inspector General Sindh Saud Mirza, who still spends most of his time at the museum he established – a project he took keen interest in.
It is said that when the then Governor Bombay, Sir George Clerk visited Sindh, he was so impressed by the performance of their police that he instructed the Bombay Police to follow their Sindh counterparts. While this incident is a proof of Sindh police’s glorious past, the department in present times has unfortunately drowned in a sea of corruption and politics.
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