Fremont Police Department preparing for groundbreaking on new station [Video]

FREMONT, Neb (KMTV) — The current Fremont Police Station on Park Avenue opened as a city municipal building over 60 years ago before becoming the police station in the 90s.

“When they moved us over here there was not a lot of money that was allocated to change the design of the building. So we really moved into a municipal building that wasn’t designed for police,” said Fremont Police Chief Jeff Elliot.

For 31 years now the Fremont Police Department has been making do with the Park Avenue station, despite what Chief Elliot calls its many flaws that make it compare unfavorably with modern police stations.

“We don’t have any prisoner facilities to hold people for even a short period of time. We don’t have juvenile facilities, we had to make our own interview rooms. The security we did put in place caused us fire codes issues,” said Elliot.

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