DEPUTIES MOVING INTO $24 MILLION STATION.Byline: CHARLES F. BOSTWICK Staff Writer PALMDALE - Palmdale sheriff's deputies are moving into a new $24 million station replacing a shopping-center office that officials say was outgrown years ago. Nearly four times the size of the leased office it replaces, the new station includes jail cells and a 911 call center, so that Palmdale authorities will not have to rely on the Lancaster sheriff's station for these facilities. "It's something we've been waiting for for a long time," Capt. John Witt, the Palmdale sheriff's station commander, said Tuesday while guiding news media representatives through the new station with its Spanish-Mediterranean exterior. "The guys are just thrilled." The move started about two weeks ago, and more than half the staff is now in the new station on Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling at Avenue Q. Patrol deputies - the last to move - and the 911 call system are expected to be operating in the new station in mid-June. Grand opening ceremonies are expected to be July 15. Since 1992, Palmdale deputies have operated out of a remodeled shopping-center building, originally intended for 80 deputies and later enlarged to 13,000 square feet. The Palmdale sheriff's staff now numbers about 250 sworn and civil-service employees, plus more than 150 volunteers, search-and-rescue personnel, reserve deputies and Explorers. The new station, with 48,000 square feet, will provide more office space for detectives, an evidence room and cells so deputies no longer have to spend an hour driving back and forth to Lancaster to book suspects they have arrested into jail. The new station also has an 8,300-square-foot service bay for maintaining patrol cars, now taken to a garage elsewhere. The 7,800-square-foot jail is big enough for 60 people, plus 10 inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. trusties Prison inmates who through their good conduct earn a certain measure of freedom in and around the prison in exchange for assuming certain responsibilities. A prison trusty might, for example, be charged with the responsibility of maintaining order among fellow inmates. . Built in a horseshoe horseshoe, narrow plate, commonly of iron or steel, shaped to fit a horse's hoof and attached to the hoof by nailing it to the inner edge of the horny wall of the hoof. shape around the jailers' control room, the jail contains glass-window detoxification Detoxification Definition Detoxification is one of the more widely used treatments and concepts in alternative medicine. It is based on the principle that illnesses can be caused by the accumulation of toxic substances (toxins) in the body. cells, a holding cell, and two- and four-person cells with bunks and toilets. The station also has an evidence room, and there is a fenced parking area for patrol cars that now must share the Palmdale Playhouse's parking lot. Palmdale city government provided the 11 1/2-acre site for the new station and agreed to pay about $1 million to widen wid·en tr. & intr.v. wid·ened, wid·en·ing, wid·ens To make or become wide or wider. wid  en·er n. streets, install
right-turn pockets near the station, relocate re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. streetlights and modify the traffic-signal system. chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com (661) 267-5742 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) The new $24 million Palmdale sheriff's station, above, replaces a shopping-center office and will give the city its own jail and 911 call center. Below, Deputy Dave Jennings David Tuthill Jennings (born June 8, 1952 in New York, New York) was an [ , at left, and Capt. John Witt survey the new dispatch center. Jeff Goldwater/Staff photographer |
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