To the Editor
After attending the first hour of tonight’s work session and viewing the rest at home, I am now certain the only way the Portsmouth City Council will obtain the unbiased truth on what size police station Portsmouth needs is to tour recently completed ones. Dover is the obvious choice as it’s only six years old and twenty minutes away. Based on the links below, one can see Dover went through the exact same process that Portsmouth is going through now.
Dover Police Facility: Concept to Construction – YouTube (my favorite part is at 7 min 25 secs)
Dover Police Department_Concept Design Book.pdf (nh.gov)
A City Council field trip / fact finding mission to Dover will provide you with real world information about what a modern police station actually needs. The architect designing Portsmouth’s police station is the same one that designed Dover’s, so I am confident appropriate introductions and tour arrangements can be made.
I realize only $70 million dollars is at stake, but for those of us that are going to pay for it, we really hope the Portsmouth City Council will make the effort.
Regards,
James A. Hewitt, Portsmouth
