If you have ever wondered what it takes to put together a secure and highly efficient public safety facility, such as a police department, here’s the answer: planning, planning, and…more planning.
Recently, the Tolleson Police Department celebrated its Grand Opening after years of coordinating, planning, designing, and constructing. Concert assisted with solutions such as short term evidence storage lockers, long term evidence storage high-density shelving, high-density records storage, armory weapons racks and steel casework.
Concert Architectural Interiors is the sole Arizona Contractor for Spacesaver/DSM, the leader in public safety storage solutions. Spacesaver/DSM solutions are available through the SAVE Agreement as well as the NJPA to all AZ Municipal Agencies, which are pre-competitively bid buying agreements that allow for procurement without obtaining competitive bids.
Concert’s Matt Gawin worked closely with Tolleson PD’s Support Services Manager, Tonia Rogers, to understand the specific requirements of the facility. A few questions that are important to ask when planning out the storage needs are:
How would short term evidence be handled? Is there a need for envelope drop slots in the pass through lockers? Would sexual assault kits be temporarily stored in the pass through evidence lockers? How would long term evidence storage be segregated? Would the long guns be boxed? How would knives and other miscellaneous forms of evidence be best stored?
These and many more questions were asked to bring value to the facility when working in concert during the design phase of the project with the owner’s team, Tolleson Public Works, pre-construction personnel from CORE Construction, as well as the architects, which were HDA Architects and PSA/Dewberry.
When we started the business in 1998, we selected the name Concert because we work in concert with owners, architects and contractors to deliver best in class spaces on time and on budget. Other public safety facilities and environments Concert provides solutions for include: detention, evidence storage, 9-1-1 communications centers and courts.
For continued reading, check out a previous article: “Easy Tips for Evidence Storage“
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