Baldivis police station celebrates official opening, hailed as ‘best in the country'
The facility, which was officially opened on Friday morning, cost $26.7 million to build.
While it has been operating since late July, Premier Roger Cook, Police Minister Reece Whitby and WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch were in attendance to officially unveil the building on Friday.
It will operate as a 24/7 station with a workforce of 40 full-time staff and the capacity to hold up to 100 full-time equivalent workers.
The Baldivis police station was first promised by Labor in 2021 in the lead up to the State election, with the pledge of $19 million to build a facility that could facilitate 40 officers.
Mr Whitby said that after initial issues finding land for the facility, the build was quick.
'We've copped a bit of flak from the local community saying we haven't even made the start on it yet but, of course, the land was the challenge and once that had been secured, the construction was relatively swift,' he said.
'It's delivered an amazing asset for our community, it's going to be here for decades and decades to come, future generations of people living here, officers working here.
'In 100 years possibly this could be still the Baldivis police station serving the community.'
Mr Whitby argued that it was the police station in Australia.
'This is one of the, and I argue it is, the best police station in the country, it's the most modern,' he said.
Mr Cook said the station would service a fast-growing community.
'Baldivis is one of the fastest growing areas of the metropolitan area, so the opportunity to be able to construct and commission a police station down here is welcomed by the local community,' he said.
'This new state of the art facility will have all the most recent developments that we expect to see in a modern police station and ultimately could house up to 100 FTE to ensure that we continue to keep the Western Australian communities and the people of Baldivis safe.'
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