The junction of Pound Lane and Clevedon Road, Nailsea, becomes a blue light corner with police, fire and ambulance crews all based at the site this month.
After nearly 50 years the police will join the other two emergency services if a little later than initially anticipated.
The police are all packed and ready to move lock, stock and barrel.
The site of the two storey police station at Stockway South has been sold for redevelopment and the officers are going to share what was the Avon Fire and Rescue Service building.
Police in Nailsea has come a long way since the early 1970s when the officers moved into the purpose-built property a few yards from the Station Road home where the village bobby lived and conducted his business.
Although a relatively low crime area Nailsea in its time has seen its share of murder and mayhem with the New Year riots, the sudden forced closure at the children’s home at Wraxall House and robberies at Tyntesfield all getting top billing.  
In 1974 Avon & Somerset Constabulary was established from a merger of Bristol City Police, Somerset and Bath Constabulary and the Staple Hill division of Gloucestershire Constabulary.
Policing has changed out of all recognition from a time when officers used whistles to summons help and carried wooden batons.
And can anyone remember the police box featured in Dr Who in a street near you?
It was back in 1829 when Robert Peel MP established the Metropolitan Police Service in London. 
It is funny to think that the last public execution in England took place a few miles down the road at Kenn in 1830 when the criminals were carried a matter of some 40-50 miles sitting on their coffins for a six-hour journey, to be hung finally, in a manner similiar to a ‘wild west’ lynching all for selling cider without a license.

Civil unrest in Nailsea dates back to 1806 when there was rioting in the area among coal miners fighting for higher wages. 
Then sometime after 1820 a village lock up was built on the village green at Kingshill facing the Butchers Arms with separate cells for men and women.
The post of village constable was advertised in 1855. 
It said: “Active and experienced man sought. Married man being preferred. Salary £52 a year.” 
Some of the first crimes he had to deal with was when a slaughtered pig was stolen from the Queens Head public house – now Coates House.
And proving nothing changes the constable was soon on the lookout for thieves who removed 200 hundredweight of lead from Holy Trinity church roof.
Detective constable John Dicks was stationed at Nailsea from its opening to 1978.  
He served under chief inspectors Whatmore, Roberts and Parkin.
His contemporaries in CID were detective sergeants Gerry Penny and Jim Smith with DCs Len Smith and Bob Grant.
The scene of crime officer was Terry Cubley.
John said: “The work was varied and wide ranging from theft and burglary through fraud, sexual offences, including the M5 rapist case and the murder of Shirley Rendall.
“In those days foot patrols were still made in Nailsea and contact was maintained through the first generation Pye Pocketphone personal radios which could be boosted in outlying areas by the proximity of a car with a radio installed.
“Nailsea was the area headquarters for stations at Clevedon and Portishead with country stations at Yatton, Pill and Winscombe.”
An old-style officer John laments that progress has led to ‘people having to visit a library or supermarket to try and find a policeman’.
Philip Locke arrived in Nailsea in 1979.
He said: “People will remember me as the ‘local bobby' who at the time lived at Coombe Road.”
Phil has long retired and moved down to the 'older' part of Nailsea but is still active in the village as vice chairman of Nailsea Skittles League.
Nailsea people have been remembering the officers who went before from PC Tony Efford who featured in the local newspaper for growing the tallest sunflower to PC Lee Paice 
Tony said: “I came to Nailsea as the village policeman in April 1971. 
“The police house was 111 Station Road.
“There is a photo of me on my police motor bike taken outside Wraxall church as part of the exhibition that was put on when Nailsea Police Station was opened in 1972.

“I was part of the police team in Nailsea for the next 19 years, until I moved on to a different department.

“The Peelers skittle team was formed then from the officers and is still going strong today, but with only four retired police officers as part of the team.”

Nailsea Then & Now social media commentator Matthew Drewett said the picture of PC Efford is ‘like it's straight out of Heartbeat’ the retro television police series.

Retired detective sergeant Brian Bartlett relocated to Spain when he hung up his handcuffs in 2002.He writes: “In 1979 our family moved from Knowle to Nailsea into a new three-bed terraced house at Chancel Close, it cost £13,750 and we loved it as everyone was our age and with young children.