Senior Superintendent of Police Vernon Ellis, says the Granville Police Station in St. James should be completed by next year.

Ellis, head of the St James Police Division, provided the update during a question and answer session for the Sam Sharpe Teacher’s College research day held on the campus in Granville, on February 28.

The station which was destroyed by fire in May 2021, will now be a new state-of-the-art facility.

“You are going to see a state-of-the-art police station at the entrance in Granville and based on the plans and the meetings that I have been attending and the persons who have been coming down [for meetings], I think within a year you should have that Granville location. I must say, it’s going to be a fine multi-storey type of thing,” he informed.

Ellis added that this new station will be the newest in a line of upgrades being made to several police stations in the parish, with improvements made to the Mt. Salem station two years ago, a brand new station at Adelphi and a second floor being constructed at the station in Anchovy.

The station will be turned into a multi-purpose facility, as it is now set to include the
construction of a resource centre for students in and around the community of Granville.

This suggestion was made by Granville residents in a meeting with the Ministry of National Security and Ellis said that the plan includes those additions.

“Persons requested that a resource centre be built on it (police station), so there could be a homework [centre] for kids, and so the architect and the other persons responsible, they have factored that into the plan,” he noted.

The improved facility will be built at the site of the old station and Ellis says it is to serve as a reassurance for Granville residents. The Research Day was held under the theme ‘The Impact of Crime on Education: The Western Jamaica Perspective’.