The Local Police of Totana come developing an important labor in the civil safety since its creation in the decade of the 40s.

Its staff relies on a group of young agents compromised with their work, which sometimes develops with the difficulty and the complexity of the problems of the modern societies.

In the year 98 one of its agents started as a hobby a collection of police articles among whom there appear objects of all parts of the world, police uniforms, emblems of arm and chest, documents, metallic plates, weapon, caps, hulls and others related always to the police world

All these items have served for the improvement of the facilities of our Local Police that has been acquiring little by little an appropriate environment, which reflects the activity that there is realized, being the pride of all its agents, for the quantity of visits that are received in the above mentioned dependences, from schools to visitors of the city and neighboring, managing to be a model in regional level, gathering great quantity of always positives commentaries.

This initiative is backed by the Town hall of Totana as of the rest of companions of the staff, since the activity started, materializing in a small Museum in the Police Headquarters, Initiative that was Rewarded by the Town hall by the Prize to the Quality 2002, which is granted to the civil servants who propose or realize some activity for the improvement of their services or dependences.

Andrés Martin, in his determination for giving to know his existence, put in touch with David Cánovas (webmaster of Totana.com) and they initiated the creation of a web page that was spreading the museum widely than the local area, a page that was born as far as February, 2003 and that today has turned into a model worldwide.

The web page, www.totana.com/museo-policia, is visited every day for near 1.000 surfers of practically all the corners of the world. The web, which is available in 4 languages, is in the first positions of the principal seekers of Internet like Google or Yahoo.

Across this page it is possible to accede to all the information of the museum. The whole material is classified under such sections as Ancient, Uniform Photos, Emblems, Plates, Caps, Hulls, etc. A Visistors book is availeable for surfers to include their signatures, suggestions and opinions in the matter. Hundreds of visitors have left theirmessages of support in that Visitors book.

There is another section named Press where they can turn all the clippings of press published about the museum and the web page. Web pages as important as the Official Web of the Headquarter of the Police of Spain and the official web of the Police, several police unions webs and multitude of pages on collectors around the whole world have included a link in their respective webs towards the page of the museum (all of them may be found in the section “links” of the web).

Through the web page, contact has been established by other collectors of both Spain and Foreigners for the interchange or donation of material for the museum and numerous objects have been obtained: emblems, pins, turnkeys, plates, caps, uniforms, etc. In this respect it is necessary to emphasize the official emblem of the firemen of New York (very quoted among the collectors) and an official cap of the New York Firemen Dptmet commemorative of the attacks on September 11th, sent both for an official of the Firemen's Department of New York for the museum.

It is worthy of mention that many visitors of the web have showed their interest to come to Totana to visit the museum contributing in that way to the diffusion of the municipality.

Finally it is necessary to emphasize that the web page of the Museum of the Local Police of Totana has been selected between better ten (TOP 10) in the Annual Prizes that there grants the Internet users' Association (AUI), in the category of better Spanish personal web.

The prizes of the AUI value aspects as the creativity, originality and innovation of the web page, the quality and quantity of the contents, and the facility of navigation, among others. These awards are the most prestigious of the sector in the national area and distinguish those companies and persons who, with their works, projects and activities, have contributed during the last year in the diffusion and the Internet development in Spain.

Likewise, Totana.com's web page has been selected among 3 better webs (TOP 3), in the absolute category of " Better Spanish Web ".

The pize-giving ceremony took place during the inaugural act of the Congress World Internet ' 2004, which was celebrated in the Conference Hall of Madrid, and that was presided by the prime minister at the time, Jose Maria Aznar, and the ministers of Science and Technology, Juan Costa, and Public Administrations, Julia García-Valdecasas.