It has basement, ground floor and 2 heights, and the dungeons are connected to the courts by an underground passage
The interior technicians check the project to verify that it meets all the conditions
The City Council has already sent to the Ministry of Interior the basic project of the new police station of the National Police, which the State will build on a plot next to the Palace of Justice. The project, which has been drafted by municipal technicians following the parameters and requirements set by the Ministry, has appeared this morning in the municipal center El Torrejó in a public event attended by the mayor, Toni Pérez; The mayor of Urbanism, Lourdes Caselles; Members of the corporation; The Commissioner of the National Police, Juan Carlos Hernández; The mayor of the Local Police, Juan Fuertes; The sergeant of the Civil Guard, Jesus Maeso; And representatives of business, social and neighborhood associations.
The building of the new police station has 9,600 square meters distributed in basement, ground floor and two heights, and occupy practically the entire plot, as explained by the writers of the project, Rafael Landete and José Escobedo. The facilities have three spaces differentiated by their use and do not intersect as are the public, the police and the detention area.
Within the spaces of citizen attention, the agencies will be installed to process the ID and passport. In the exclusive use of the agents, a large shooting gallery has been designed, a gym area and changing rooms for the agents, an office and a parking for police vehicles with a small own workshop, which are added to the offices and Spaces of the different police units. As far as the area of detainees is concerned, an underground communication has been planned between the dungeons and the Palace of Justice, which will simplify the transfers.
The mayor has indicated that with the referral of the document to the Ministry "the first phase of a very exciting project is fulfilled." Also, it has influenced that the police station "is a priority", since the current facilities "are not according" to the necessities, nor to "the reality and image of Benidorm". Pérez stressed that in addition to complying with the functionality required as a public service, the new police station has paid attention "to design and architecture, which are in the DNA of Benidorm."
The technicians of the Technical Unit of the Ministry will now have to review this basic project to check compliance with the regulations, and based on this draft the execution project. In this regard, the Councilor for Urban Planning recalled that the document for the "future" and "so desired" police station was drafted taking into account "the program of needs" raised by the Interior.
