FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - The Fort Lauderdale Police Department unveiled its new headquarters at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday morning.
Officials said that the new facility is equipped with technology that will help officers investigate crimes more efficiently.
“This new building dramatically increases our ability to more detailed, accurately, quickly investigate,” said Fort Lauderdale Police Chief William Schultz. “State-of-the-art crime scene, digital forensics, we have [the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network], which reads the ballistics of shells from casings spent. The things that we have in this building would’ve never been available in our old facility.”
Officials said the high-tech facility is now fully operational and is built to withstand a Category 5 hurricane.
The new three-story building replaces the department’s former headquarters, which was built in 1958 and sat on the same site until its demolition.
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