Fort Lauderdale, FL – A new police headquarters has opened in Fort Lauderdale, bringing law enforcement operations, investigative units and training facilities into one modern complex.<\/p>\n
City officials opened the Fort Lauderdale Police Department headquarters Wednesday at 1300 West Broward Boulevard following years of construction delays.<\/p>\n
The three-story building contains approximately 191,000 square feet and is supported by a 200,000-square-foot parking garage. <\/p>\n
It will serve about 500 sworn officers and 300 civilian employees.<\/p>\n
The $165 million facility includes a real-time crime center, forensic laboratory, evidence areas, administrative offices and a community meeting room. <\/p>\n
A specialized Faraday room blocks electromagnetic signals while investigators examine cellphones and other electronic devices.<\/p>\n
The headquarters also contains a firearms training range with weapon storage and cleaning areas. <\/p>\n
Its entrance can accommodate a full-size sport utility vehicle for certain training exercises.<\/p>\n
The building replaces a police headquarters constructed in 1958. <\/p>\n
Employees had reported problems involving broken air conditioning, malfunctioning elevators, roof leaks and outdated equipment.<\/p>\n
Voters approved a $100 million bond for the project in 2019.<\/p>\n
Rising construction expenses increased the projected cost to about $140 million before work began in 2023.<\/p>\n
Construction was later delayed after a crack appeared in a roof slab near the northwest corner.<\/p>\n
An engineering review identified eight safety concerns requiring attention.<\/p>\n
Design firm AECOM agreed to cover the required corrective work.<\/p>\n
A memorial inside the lobby honors Fort Lauderdale officers who died in the line of duty.<\/p>\n
The public lobby and records unit will operate from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale, FL – A new police headquarters has opened in Fort Lauderdale, bringing law enforcement operations, investigative…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15691,55161,249,251,250,26431,38404,6343],"class_list":["post-395999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-city-officials","tag-facilities","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-headquarters","tag-police-headquarters","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}