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• Shanghai Museum of Public Security August 17, 2006

Leave the traditional guided walks behind and strike out at your own pace with an audio guide. This bilingual podcast is presented by Shanghai Daily and supervised by the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee.

With over one hundred years of history, the Shanghai Police department is going to unveil their mysterious world to you today. Covering an area of 8,050-square-meters, the museum has 11 exhibition halls with different themes. The halls record the achievements and history of the Shanghai Police since 1854.

Official website: http://www.policemuseum.com.cn/

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A replica of the old Tilanqiao Prison. Built in 1902, it is known as "the first prison in the Far East." It held Chen Duxiu, a co-founder of the Communist Party of China, in the 1920s, and Japanese war criminals in 1945.

From left to right: Waxworks of an Indian patrolman with whiskers, an English patrolman and a Chinese patrolman.

Guns used by Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the KMT party.

These drawers were used to keep census information cards in the last century.

A restored motorcycle made by a US company in the last century.

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