Police Headquarters

You Can only visit on guided tours with the police museum. There are several restrictions. www.politimuseum.dk, it's in Danish but there is contact information

Thank you Morten.
I have sent an email to arrange a tour. I was able to navigate the website fairly well with google translate.

An update on my attempt to arrange a tour. I visited the politimuseum website and was able to navigate it fairly well using google translate. They are allowing online tour bookings for next summer, the cost of a tour is 1500 Kroner for up to 15 people.

So, I used the email address listed for questions and asked if I could arrange to join another English speaking tour so that I could share the fee and I did not get any answer. So I thought I would go ahead and book the tour online and see what happened.

During booking it gives two ways of paying. EAN or email invoice. I thought EAN was the barcodes on products and I didn't know how to manage that so I chose email invoice. On the comment section, I again remarked that if possible I would like to combine myself with another tour to share the fee. (They offer one tour usually per day). I received confirmation of my booking. The confirmation asks me to send a list of attendees to a link and there is no link. I have not received an invoice.

I will try to email my questions to them again, but do you have any ideas?

From what I can tell from the website, they need a complete list of participants with names and addresses at least five days before the tour. Once the list has been sent, you cannot change it. I they don't allow someone to change the list after it has been sent, they might not allow you to join another tour, unless you can find someone else arranging it and get on their list before they send it. Hopefully they will get back to you with an answer.
Also 1500kr is very expensive for a guided tour.
Perhaps all this bureaucracy and filling in of needles paperwork is part of an interactive experience of actual police work :-)

Thanks Morten.

I did reach out to Nordic Noir tours. There are pics of the courtyard on Tripadvisor under their tours. They told me that they are no longer able to take people into the courtyard. Also in a diplomatic way let me know that the politimuseum folks aren't easy to work with and have a habit of not getting back to people.

Maybe since the guides are all retired police officers, no one is monitoring their emails very often and they will eventually get back to me. In my every day life I would not spend that kind of money on a 90 minute tour, but it is such a small percentage of my overall trip and I have my mind made up I need to be there I will likely keep the tour.

Maybe when I get there they will feel guilty about one person paying that for a tour and will add something to the tour.

I loved your comment about the bureaucracy! Everything is hard these days.

Another update.
I received this email from politigaarden@politimuseum.dk:

"Due to high security it's not possible for people without a Danish residence to have a guided tour around the headquarter of the police of Copenhagen. Therefore, I have to cancel your booking on the xx of June.
Med venlig hilsen
Sofie Sidor Christiansen
Konsulent"

Dagnabit.