New OPP station on schedule

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The new Brant County OPP detachment headquarters should open on schedule, says a Brant County councillor.

“We took a tour recently and work on the inside of the station is well underway,”  said Coun. Joan Gatward, chair of the Brant police services board.

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She said work will continue outdoors as weather permits.

“It’s coming along nicely and I know that the officers and staff, as well as my colleagues on council are looking forward to it being done,” Gatward said.

“It should be opening on time and on budget.”

Plans call for the new building to be done by the end of next March. The official ground-breaking ceremony to symbolize the start of construction of the $9.3-million detachment at Bethel and Rest Acres road was held last March.

The new building will include four cells, storage and secure weapons room, separate offices for sergeants and a room that can be used for lectures. As well, it will have locker and fitness rooms and a dispatch office.

“We toured other recently built OPP detachments to give us an idea of how it should look and function,” Gatward said. “That was really helpful.”

She said the tour helped visualize how elements of the new building will fit together.

“It will be a very efficient building that will serve the OPP and our community well.”

Brant OPP officers and civilian staff are now working out of an aging and cramped building at Mechanic Street and Broadway Street West in Paris. The building is prone to leaks and is obsolete.

Discussions and planning for a new OPP detachment headquarters have been in the works for more than 10 years.

The new headquarters is being built by Melloul-Blamey Construction of Waterloo.

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