Raccoon Street Police HQ Set for Long-Awaited Roof

After years of wear and tear, Home Affairs Minister Kareem Musa says the long-overdue renovations to the Raccoon Street Police Headquarters are finally on the horizon. In just a few weeks, the building could be getting a brand-new roof, yes, a real roof, something the multi-floor structure has been missing for far too long. And while that’s the short-term plan, the long-term vision is ambitious, an entirely new facility that could house up to three hundred officers. But that, Musa says, will take future budgeting and maybe even some help from international partners.

 

Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs

“In a month or two, you can come back here, and we’ll have a roof on this building because we are just waiting for the Ministry of Finance to give the go ahead. Construction will start thereafter for the roof, and I don’t think that we’ll be having that issue. But that is the short-term plan, I know that we were looking at renting other buildings but, like I said, the amount of square footage that we are looking at, you’re going to be paying somewhere between twenty to thirty thousand dollars a month in rent. But that’s not the direction we’re going to go at this point. We can do the repairs to this building and it’s going to save us a lot of money just to do those repairs and then, of course, to deal with the mold situation in the building. So that is the short-term plan. Long-term plan, to house three hundred people, we would need a brand new building and we would just have to start working on that for future budgets or soliciting from our partners, international partners.”