Wyndham Super Station To Fight Crime In The West
19 July 2018
Victorian Government:
The state-of-the-art Wyndham police hub
is a step closer after police appointed a consultant project team to
spearhead design and construction of the new facility.
The $45 million
Wyndham Police Complex will be one of the largest
Victoria Police facilities outside the
Melbourne’s CBD, with accommodation for approximately 550 police
members, support staff and partnering agency staff.
A strong consultant team,
Architectus, has been appointed by Victoria
Police to lead design,
Meinhardt to deliver engineering services and
Donald Cant Watts Corke as project managers.
The complex will replace the existing Werribee station, given the growth
of numbers in frontline police and specialist officers being rolled out
in the area in the next few years, following record investment into
police resourcing by the Andrews Labor Government.
Detailed planning for the new station is now underway. Construction is
expected to start in mid-2019 and completed by the end of 2020.
The complex is part of the broader Wyndham Justice Precinct being
developed as part of the Werribee National Employment and Innovation
Cluster. The Precinct, once complete, will provide integrated justice
services for the Wyndham community aligning policing, court services,
corrections, health, and council services.
The police station is funded through the Labor Government’s massive
police station infrastructure program, which is replacing and upgrading
dozens of police stations and residences across Victoria.
The Labor Government has also invested more than $2 billion to deliver
3,135 police, technology and facilities to give crime fighters the tools
they need to keep Victorians safe and reduce the harm caused by crime.
This record investment has already seen 41 new police allocated to the
Westgate Division, including 27 frontline police for Wyndham. A further
42 police will be on the beat in the Division, including another 12
frontline police for Wyndham and additional specialist family violence
and criminal investigation officers, by June 2019.
This massive boost to police resources is already having an impact, with
the crime rate in Wyndham for the year to March 2018 decreasing more
than 10 per cent compared to the previous 12 months.
Quotes attributable to Minister for Police Lisa Neville
“Our police deserve the best facilities and we are delivering a
state-of-the art police station for our officers and the residents of
Wyndham.”
“The new station will be critical to support our record boost to police
numbers to keep our community safe.”
Quote attributable to Member for Werribee Tim Pallas
“We’re giving our police the resources they need, and this police
station – one of the biggest outside the city – will help deliver even
better services for Melbourne’s west.”
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