Greater Sudbury Police Service honoured the man who helped create the Sudbury Region Police Museum during a naming ceremony on June 26.
The Sudbury Region Police Museum is now named the Staff Insp. Robert D. Cowley Room.
"These occasions are reserved only for those who have made significant contributions and retired staff inspector Cowley is one of the people." Police chief Paul Pedersen said.
The museum was originally the brainchild of retired officer Robert Cowley. In 1996, when the service was planning on moving from Larch Street to the current location on Brady Street, Cowley requested that a space be set aside for a museum. After receiving approval from then Chief Alex McCauley, Cowley began the planning and development of the museum that would officially open in 2002. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Three of Cowley's daughters attended the naming ceremony and unveiling.
"My dad was passionate about a lot of things," Jennifer Cowley said. "He was very dedicated to the Greater Sudbury Police Service and he loved history and that is why he was so passionate about this museum."
The Sudbury Region Police Museum is located on the third floor of the Sudbury Police Service station at 190 Brady Street. Through the use of artifacts, photographs and documents, the museum displays the origins, growth, and development of law enforcement in the Sudbury Region.
The display includes:
- The History of the Sudbury Police Services
- Firearms and Weapons
- Transportation
- Communications
- Wall of Memories
- Forensics
- Body Armour
- Police Uniforms (Historic and Recent)
For more information, or to book a museum tour, visit the website here.
