Beverly Police Clothing Line Includes Seasonal Shoebert Shirt

BEVERLY, MA — Those looking to get a little Beverly Police Department gear — including shirts with the BPD emblem of the city's favorite celebrity seal "Shoebert" — now have a one-stop online shopping center through Todd's Sporting Goods.

BPD is selling items, including the Shoebert BPD Christmas T-shirts, through the site. Shoppers can also pick up the Beverly police seal shirt from Shoebert's visit in September, the BPD "Salute to Service" shirts, Autism Awareness shirts, Strike Out ALS shirts and Breast Cancer Awareness shirts.

Shoebert shirts must be ordered before Dec. 15 for Christmas delivery.

The shirts are in addition to the holiday-themed Ghost Patch limited to 350 pieces this holiday season.

One month after the celebrity seal, which made Beverly's Shoe Pond his home for a week, waddled over to the Beverly Police Station and "turned himself in" before being taken to the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut, an official BPD-approved police patch commemorating Shoebert's stay in the city sold out in about an hour in its first run in October.

The 4-year-old gray seal was released off the coast of Rhode Island early in October, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirming that Shoebert was back somewhere on the North Shore within the week.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)