City of South Fulton trading makeshift police headquarters for new building – WSB-TV Channel 2

SOUTH FULTON, Ga. — The Metropolis of South Fulton is constructing a brand new headquarters for the police division.

Channel 2′s Candace McCowan realized that the town purchased 9 acres on the intersection of Previous Nationwide Freeway and Jonesboro Highway for $1.4 million.

Presently, South Fulton police don’t have its personal services. As an alternative, they work out of makeshift areas that don’t all the time work out.

In July, the police precinct on Previous Nationwide Freeway shut down due to safety concerns.

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“We have been involved about some environmental points related to that individual facility, so we needed to shut it down about two months in the past. As a result of we misplaced that area, it put us in a fair tighter bind,” South Fulton Police Chief Keith Meadows stated.

The 5-year-old division is at the moment squeezing into current buildings that don’t all the time meet their wants.

“We’re all form of cramped in right here collectively,” Meadows stated. “Proper now, we’re form of treading water just a little bit.”

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They’re hopeful that this new facility shall be among the finest within the nation.

Police officers say they’re amassing neighborhood surveys and bringing in outdoors consultants to make it one of the best it may be.

“We’re speaking about placing an actual time crime middle in there. Proper now, we’ve got our personal drone patrol program, we’re speaking a couple of fusion middle the place we’ve got a video integration middle embedded on this facility,” Meadows defined.

Civilian worker Veronica Carew instructed McCowan that the transfer can’t come quickly sufficient.

“When you have got seven completely different entities working in the identical location, its form of onerous to get area,” she stated.

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The ability will take 5 years to construct absolutely. The town is about to approve a lease for a brand new short-term area subsequent week.

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