New Ontario Police Police detachments are springing up across the province with construction underway in Kenora, Dryden, Kapuskasing, Timmins, the Almaguin Highlands and Smiths Falls.
Shield Infrastructure Partnership consortium is the big beneficiary with 30-year deals with the province to design, build, finance and maintain them.
The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services announced May 26 that, overall, 16 new detachments, regional headquarters and forensic identification units in Ontario are under construction. Each project, the ministry says, will create 50 local construction jobs.
Kenora's new detachment, opening in the fall of 2012, will cover 14,200 square feet of lab area, including three bio-hazard suites, chemical room, photo studio, multi-media room and fingerprint filing room.
Dryden's new station of 14,550 square feet opens in the spring of 2012 and comes complete with evidence vaults and nine holding cells.
The South Porcupine detachment's (Timmins area) 14,200-square-foot building opens in the fall of 2012, while Kapuskasing constables get a 13,200-square-foot administration centre for its James Bay detachment by the spring of 2012.
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