Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has said that four Police Stations on the island will be in for an upgrade and upliftment in the coming months by his four-year-old National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.
Speaking at a press conference in St George, he identified them as the St David Police Station, Grenville Police Station, Victoria Police Station and Union Police Station in St Mark.
The Prime Minister told reporters that the Designs and Bills of Quantities for the station at St David have been developed to rehabilitate the building and that the tendering and construction will start at the beginning of the second quarter of 2026.
He spoke of a decision already taken for the relevant offices housed in the building to be relocated to the adjacent Fire Station in St David.
The offices to be affected are the St. David Magistrate’s Court, Police Station and District Revenue Office.
According to Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell who is also the Minister of National Security, the planned demolition of the old building housing the Grenville Police Station will take place in the second quarter of 2026 and that the Designs for the new building will start once a new location is confirmed.
The Police in Grenville are now operating from the nearby building that is owned by the Marketing & National Importing Board.
With respect to the condemned Victoria Police Station building, the Prime Minister reported that construction work is now almost complete on the new location for the lawmen at the building once known as Victoria Hotel.
He said that all that needs to be done now is the installation of the toilets.
On the Union Police Station, PM Dickon Mitchell disclosed that work will commence on the renovation of the building by the end of the first quarter of 2026 as the entire roof needs to be replaced.
He said that following a bidding process, a contract was awarded to Dwight John in the sum of $1.3M to do the work which was due to start this month.
Since coming into office in 2022, the Congress administration has spent millions of dollars on making improvements to the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF).
The police headquarters was relocated from Fort George to the old Cable & Wireless building on the Carenage that was significantly upgraded, and the Police station at St Paul’s was given a major facelift.
The NDC administration has also made available millions of dollars for the purchase of a new Coast Guard vessel for the lawmen.