News regarding the new RCMP HQ
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Codiac RCMP is a major step closer to a new headquarters after Moncton City Council approved the 2.4 million dollar purchase of almost five acres of land between Assomption and Vaughan Harvey Boulevards.
Superintendent Tom Critchlow says this is great news, as they have been waiting for quite a while adding this is the best location of the ones they saw.
“I think it’s still early to really come out and say what will be in there, now that we have a design team, they’re just in the final selection of who that will be, and they’ll work with our team out of Halifax on exactly what’s needed,” says Critchlow.
He says despite being a little further away from the downtown core, it won’t impact service.
“It’s within the same proximity to the court house, we wanted to have it within a certain radius of that, proximity to other communities within the region, so I don’t see it changing the way we do our business,” says Critchlow.
One of the location requirements from the RCMP was that the new HQ be within 1 to 1.5 kilometres of the Moncton Courthouse on Assomption Boulevard, opposite Riverfront Park.
“We have a special Utilities Team for the Atlantic region that help in the design of buildings, and obviously for a police building, there are specific requirements that have to be included,” adds Critchlow.
Critchlow says if all goes according to plan, they expect to be able to occupy the new building by Spring 2022.
The estimated cost of the new HQ is $40 – 50 million dollars, but that will be narrowed down as the design phase proceeds.
Moncton City Councillor, and Codiac Regional Policing Authority Chair Charles Leger says the cost of the building will be split within the tri-communities by the normal formula.
Moncton is covering 70 per cent of the costs, with Dieppe and Riverview paying for 18 and 12 per cent respectively.