The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Charles officially opens ‘recycled’ police station
The Prince of Wales joked he was opening a “recycled” police station when he unveiled a plaque to mark the launch of a refurbished building where royalty protection officers are based.
Charles was visiting the station in King’s Lynn, a few miles from the Queen’s private Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where the royal family gather every Christmas and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have their country home of Anmer Hall.
The heir to the throne was given a tour of the 1950s building downsized and modernised in 2017 as part of a £3.1 million project to create up-to-date facilities for civilians and officers policing the King’s Lynn and West Norfolk district.
In a speech to officers and civilians, the prince said he was pleased to “assist at the opening of your new, or maybe so slightly recycled, police station here in King’s Lynn”, and he quipped that with all the work they did, a more appropriate name would be “a community problem-solving hub”.
He added: “I think it’s a very good example of new building in old place, if I may say so, providing of course modern, state-of-the-art facilities without compromising everything else.
“I know also at first hand of the marvellous work which you all do, as many of the police officers who look after us when we are at Sandringham come from, of course, this very police station.
“I realise some of the close protection officers here today are part of that Sandringham team.”
Charles met crime scene investigators during his tour and also chatted to officers trying to prevent former prison inmates re-offending with help from the Prince’s Trust.
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