Leading Public Safety Strategies...S H E R I F F ’ S M U S E U M A N DE D U C A T I O N A L C E N T E R“The Sheriff’s Museum and Educational Center preserves and promotes the historyof the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> Sheriff’s <strong>Department</strong> for the enlightenment and educationof visitors of all ages.”Centrally located at California’s birthplaceand 100 feet from where the first cobblestonejail once stood in 1850, in the heart of historicOld Town, is the Sheriff’s Museum andEducational Center. The Museum officiallyopened its doors on November 17, 2001.Since that day, thousands of visitors from allover the Country have visited the two-story,7,000 square-foot Museum. In addition tothese visitors, approximately 12,000 4thgrade students tour the Museum annually aspart of their curriculum. Additionally, everynew Sheriff’s employee—both sworn andprofessional support staff, is required to tour the Museum as partof their orientation.Sheriff Kolender believes “it’s important for staff to know theirroots and see firsthand how law enforcement has evolved over theyears. When sworn deputies pin on their badges, they should feel asense of pride not only in the <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>County</strong> Sheriff’s<strong>Department</strong>, but in the law enforcement profession as a whole.”The <strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> Sheriff’s <strong>Department</strong> certainly has a colorful pastand a modern history of professionalism and innovation that can becaptured with a visit to the Sheriff’s Museum and EducationalCenter. Exhibits include a weapons gallery, helicopter, bomb-robot,real jail cell with a display case full of homemade weapons confiscatedfrom inmates, live communications, California history gallery,courtroom, mock murder scene, financial crimes, SWAT, gangs andnarcotics and Gallery of Honor.In addition to tourists, employees and 4th grade City schoolchildren, <strong>2004</strong> brought many more special groups to the MuseumExecutive Director Dorothy Strout, left, with volunteerJill Gillespie, at the Museum Gift Shop.
for Tomorrow.<strong>2004</strong>YEARIn Review“Pride in our pastpromises hopefor our future.”— Former SheriffJohn F. Duffyincluding the following law enforcement organizationsand groups:• The California Coroners’ Association• California Court Services Security Officers• California State Sheriffs’ Association’s (CSSA) Board of Directors• CSSA’s 2nd-in-Command• CSSA’s Administrative Assistants/Secretaries• FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association• Crime Stoppers, and• the Southern California Jail Managers Association.<strong>Annual</strong> events in <strong>2004</strong> included participation in the Bonita ChiliCook-off, Cinco de Mayo festivities in Old Town, Veterans’ DayParade, Martin Luther King Parade, Poway Parade, to name a few.Our largest fundraiser in support of the Museum held last yearraised approximately $50,000 for the operation of the Museum, thusenabling us to keep admission to the Museum free and maintainvarious educational programs for our youth.