Doctor Who fans are excited about the opening of a 'TARDIS' Police Box in Boscombe in Dorset. It is expected to be the only operating Police Box outside of London since they were decommissioned back in the 1960s.
The idea is for a more visible Police presence to tackle crime. However, a fan has suggested that the 'celebrity status' of the 'TARDIS' will outweigh that service.
Doctor Who Online editor Sebastian Brook, who used to live in
Bournemouth, said it was "the visual image of the police box that
connected several generations" of fans. He said the news site had received many emails from "excited" people
keen to visit the police box in the Bournemouth suburb, and so it had
"been following the progress quite closely"
The box for the precinct on Christchurch Road has been funded by donations from local companies. Dorset Police said the 1920s-design steel box would act as "a
highly-visible policing footprint", but was also designed to be a
tourist attraction. The steel framework will be sprayed and installed in Boscombe by the end of Spring
Police boxes were first used in the USA, with the first UK box being opened in Glasgow in 1891.
By 1953 there were 685 police boxes on the streets of London. Police
boxes were phased out, but a new police box was installed by the
Metropolitan Police outside Earls Court Tube station in 1996.
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