Friday, March 05, 1999
Independence police just looking for a home
BY JANE PRENDERGAST
The Cincinnati Enquirer
INDEPENDENCE — It is the police department without a home.
Independence officers knew their move eight months ago to the Kenton County Courthouse would be temporary. They just didn't think it would be this temporary.
But the new county administration already has had a decorator checking out the space. So Chief Ed Porter and his officers have become amateur real-estate agents, looking everywhere they can think of for new space.
Discussions about a new police station have been going on at least since he interviewed for the job three years ago. In fact, the former Cincinnati Police Division SWAT commander only agreed to take the position after city officials promised to work on the workplace situation.
He said the former headquarters was like a dirty pool hall. Somebody suggested fixing the place up. That, Chief Porter said, would be like “putting earrings on hogs.”
Some officials think the city — one of the fastest-developing in Northern Kentucky — should buy the soon-to-be-vacated fire station and turn it into a public works facility and a police department.
But there's one problem: Chief Porter says the department's furniture won't fit up the stairs.
His suggestion? A plan. Instead of spending money to renovate the fire station, an expense architects have estimated as high as $500,000, the chief has proposed putting the same amount toward a new public works facility that the police department could use until a new headquarters was finished.
“But right now,” he said, “there's no course of action.”
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