Teselecta

The Teselecta was a Justice Department Vehicle, staffed by a crew who had been miniaturised by a compression field. It could travel through time, and was used to locate people who were deemed to have committed crimes but had escaped punishment. After finding them near the end of their respective timelines (so as to avoid changing history), the crew would administer their own punishment - usually in the form of some non-lethal, painful torture, so that afterwards they could die in the manners recorded by history.

History
The Teselecta was manned by a staff of four hundred twenty-one people led by Captain Carter. They could change its appearance to that of any humanoid being. When the Eleventh Doctor, Amy, Rory and Mels crashed into Adolf Hitler's office, the Teselecta was trying to punish Hitler, but got him in the wrong time period. When they saw Mels, who had regenerated, revealing herself as Melody Pond, they stopped their pursuit of Hitler and tried to punish her instead, as their records indicated that she would be the one to kill the Doctor. They were thwarted by her parents, Amy and Rory, who deactivated the devices protecing the crew from the ship's antibodies. They were forced to teleport to a spaceship above the Earth, abandoning the Teselecta. The Teselecta was then used to show Melody that she would become River Song, a good friend of the Doctor and his companions. This aided Melody in resisting her childhood programming as the Silence's assassin. The Doctor also had it reveal the Silence's purpose and secretly extracted data from it regarding his death. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler)

The Teselecta was later recovered by its crew. While investigating the Silence by posing as Gideon Vandaleur (a recently deceased envoy of the Silence), the Teselecta was approached by the Doctor for information. After leading the Doctor to someone who could help, the Teselecta was again approached to deliver the Doctor's letters lest he cross his own timestream. The Captain asked the Doctor if there was anything else the crew could do to help, as they really did believe in justice and wanted to help despite the Doctor's contempt. The Doctor asked for the Teselecta to take on his shape (and put on a light show to simulate a failed regeneration) to fake his own death. When trapped in the alternate timeline, the Doctor was in fact in the Teselecta the whole time. He revealed this to River Song before sending them back to Lake Silencio where River shot the Teselecta, apparently killing the Doctor, allowing him to successfully fake his own death. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)

Shapeshifting
The Teselecta could resemble anyone or anything whose likeness it has scanned. During its time in Berlin, 1938, it took on the forms of a janitor, a Nazi official, a Nazi soldier (with and without a motorbike), as well as Amy Pond and River Song. A member of the crew stated that it had once taken the form of Rasputin, but with green skin (DW: Let's Kill Hitler). At some time in the future the Teselecta took the form of Father Gideon Vandaleur, a deceased member of the Silence, and at his request on the 22nd of April 2011, the Doctor (DW: The Wedding of River Song). It was even able to mimic regeneration as it did after being shot the first time at Lake Silencio (DW: The Impossible Astronaut). The Teselecta had a high level of damage resistance, as the Doctor declared that he "barely got singed" when his 'body' was being cremated at Lake Silencio (DW: The Wedding of River Song).

Miniaturisation ray
The Teselecta was equipped with a miniaturisation ray, which it used to miniaturise people and transport them into the Teselecta. Compression fields were used to keep people miniaturised.

Antibodies
The interiors of the Teselecta were defended by robotic organisms called "the Antibodies". Anyone without the proper privileges was killed, such as the Nazi Zimmerman in 1938. (DW: Let's Kill Hitler)