POLICE BOX UNVEILED IN BOSCOMBE

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The TARDIS materialised in Boscombe town centre in Dorset today in front of a large crowd of enthusiastic onlookers.

The box will serve as a new police office to help the town confront anti-social behaviour as well as promote the area to tourists.

MP for Bournemouth East Tobias Ellwood, who attended the launch, said:

Boscombe has had its challenges with anti-social behaviour but it is a vibrant community. The box itself is now a fantastic, iconic symbol of a desire by the police and the community to be very optimistic about where this part of Bournemouth is going.

It is not only now a tourist attraction in its own right, one of the few boxes operating in the country, it will also be manned in the evening by police officers and have a telephone linked straight to the police as well. It’s both symbolic and functional.

Unveiling the box I couldn’t help but notice that many in the crowd were dressed up as Doctor Who figures – there was even a Dalek there.

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A report by ITV station Meridian about the police box’s opening is available to watch via this link. Doctor Who fan Nick Joy appears in the report and he took the photograph above which is used by his kind permission.

For more photos, see Dorset Police’s Twitter feed.

Thanks to Nick Joy

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