Suozzi Breaks Ground on State-of-the-Art, Modernized 911 & Public Safety Center
$53 Million Public Safety Center Will Update County’s Aging 911 Systems, Consolidate Operations and Include Emergency Back-up Facilities
Westbury, NY – As part of his on-going effort to consolidate and modernize County government, Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi today broke ground on the County’s new $53 million Public Safety Center (PSC) in Westbury. Slated to be completed in mid-2009, the new PSC will modernize Nassau County’s aging 911 systems, consolidate several public safety operations in one location and include back-up emergency facilities.
The new facility, at 1194 Prospect Ave., will house in one place several public safety operations, currently in disparate locations. These include:
- The Nassau County Police Department Communications Bureau, which handles police 911 calls
- Fire Communications, which handles the Fire Marshal’s 911 calls
- The NCPD Information Technology Unit, which maintains police statistical records, analyzes crime reports and coordinates the department’s various technological programs and systems
- The NCPD Arson Bomb Squad
- The Nassau County Fire Marshal’s Office
“Today’s groundbreaking gets us closer to achieving two primary goals of my administration – ensuring Nassau County remains the safest municipality of its size in the nation and making County government more efficient,” Suozzi said. “Several vital public safety operations – which logically should be housed together – will be placed in a completely modern, state-of-the-art facility. It will provide more efficient service to our residents while helping keep them safe.”
The new PSC builds on the County’s success with No Wrong Door, a smart-government initiative that in 2005 placed the County’s eight health and human services departments into a single, modern facility at 60 Charles Lindbergh Blvd., to better serves the public while saving taxpayer money.
The NCPD Information Technology Unit is now housed at Police Headquarters in Mineola; the current, aging 911 system is in a bunker behind Police Headquarters; and the Arson Bomb Squad and Fire Marshal are in Uniondale. (1194 Prospect Ave. currently houses the Department of Public Works and the Nassau County Records Center.)
