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A police box outside Earl's Court tube station in London, built in 1996 and based on the 1929 Gilbert Mackenzie Trench design. A police box is a public telephone kiosk or callbox for the use of members of the police, or for members of the public to contact the police. It was used in some countries, most widely in the United Kingdom throughout ...
A kōban is typically a one- or two-story building with a couple of rooms (although there is wide variation), staffed by a few police officers belonging to the community police affairs section (地域課, chiiki-ka) of a police station (警察署, Keisatsu-sho). [4] [5] Many kōban have signs reading KOBAN in Latin script. [6] [7]
A number of legacy police boxes are still standing on streets around the United Kingdom. Although now no longer used for their original function, many have been repurposed as coffee kiosks, and are often affectionately referred to as TARDISes. [49] [50] A police box in the Somerton area of Newport in South Wales is known as the Somerton TARDIS ...
Internally, the box was a miniature police station. The Somerton police box has a lamp fixing on top which would flash to indicate an incoming call. The first UK police boxes were deployed in 1888; the familiar 'TARDIS' shape first appeared in 1929. UK police discontinued use of such boxes by 1969 with the advent of police personal radios for ...
Police callbox, Washington, D.C., 1912. A call box or callbox is a box, usually metal, containing a special-purpose direct line telephone or other telecommunications device which has been used by various industries and institutions as a way for employees or clients at a remote location to contact a central dispatch office.
An “incendiary device” was found attached to the side of a ballot drop box when Portland Police responded about 3:30 a.m. Monday, and security personnel extinguished the fire, the Portland ...
Police arrested two people in a series of Lego thefts from stores in Southern California. More than 2,800 boxes of the toys were seized at one suspect's home.
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