June 11, 2015
Work is going ahead full-steam on the construction site for Kingaroy’s new multi-million dollar police station.
Contractors have demolished one of the police houses on the site, and the second will also be removed.
The Scenes of Crime forensic laboratory has been relocated to the rear of the site and is currently undergoing extensions.
Kingaroy police Officer-in-Charge Senior Sergeant Duane Frank said the first part of the new station building to be constructed would be the watchhouse.
This will have multiple cells and there will be an undercover connection between the cells and the Kingaroy Courthouse building.
Once the new watchhouse is commissioned, the current watchhouse building will be demolished.
Uniformed police will relocate into the Artie Kerr Building alongside the Kingaroy CIB while the rest of the new building takes shape.
Brisbane-based construction company Bryant (Qld) Pty Ltd is undertaking the $7.278 million construction job after winning the tender on March 30.
Work began on the project almost immediately.
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