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The Denver Police Museum would like to thank Marie Dabis of the Denver Police Department and members of Denver City Council who voted to transfer the ownership of this 1978 Nova to the Museum for preservation. This car was listed on the DPD fleet from 1978 through July 2025. This makes this car the longest […]

This June, the Denver Police Museum successfully acquired the original badge of Denver’s First Police Woman Sadie Likens. This is a significant addition to the outstanding badge collection the museum currently holds in the museum archives. Thank you to retired Denver Police Sgt Dean Christopherson for his careful research and efforts to capture this important

Click here to view the Channel 7 Report In late 2025, the Museum will host a ceremony to remember the victims of the tragic United Airlines Flight 629 disaster, the first act of aircraft sabotage in the US. This event will be dedicated to the families and loved ones of those who perished when the

Thanks to the hard work of retired Denver Police Sgt. Dean Christopherson, we were able to add the late Denver Police Officer Dale Coski to the national and state memorials. Coski’s name was formally dedicated on May 13, 2025 at the 37th Annual Candlelight Vigil during National Police Week. Dale was severely injured in a

Police Week 2025 was another big success with a number of special events and tributes to our fallen officers and legacy Denver Police Families and innovators. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Blue  Hat Foundation and the Denver Police Foundation for their support of the lunch following this year’s formal memorial

“It was like him to try to protect others at the expense of his own life. He spent his life trying to help others. When he joined the force, he saw the chance to really contribute to society and spent 15 years giving his best.” It was late Saturday night, March 11, 1962, when Denver

On Sunday evening, January 12, 1958, Don Seick and his wife Eloine were out for a drive after visiting a few friends. They had left their six children, ages six years to two months old, at home in the care of her brother, Dan Gonzales. Gonzales said later he saw his brother-in-law put on his

First-Hand Accounts Humanize Officers and Help to Tell Personal Histories The Denver Police Museum houses many significant artifacts with rich histories essential to our mission of building a bridge between the community and the Denver Police Department through storytelling. Along with artifacts, our collection is also made up of a small but mighty collection of