Cheyenne Police Move To New Building June 1 [Gallery]

The Cheyenne Police Department will officially move into the 93,000 square foot public safety building on June 1.

Police Chief Brian Kozak says the new building will include state of the art technology, such as an automatic video recording system which records interviews with crime suspects and witnesses and automatically logs them into a database.

Security features include such items as an automatic photography system that takes pictures of anyone checking out a police vehicle so that there is a record of who has used the vehicle in case the keys come up missing.

Numerous sections of the building are named for fallen Cheyenne Police officers, for example the fitness center is named for a police officer who died while working out in 2007.

Kozak says the facility is designed to serve the police department for roughly the next 50 years or so, and parts of the facility have been left vacant for now to allow for future expansion.

The building includes three regular floors plus a basement parking area and a penthouse that houses some of the equipment needed to run the building.

Police are offering public tours of the facility, which is located at 415 West 18th St. on Thursday and Friday, May 12 and 13, from noon until 8 p.m. Laramie County voters in 2012 approved spending $25 million in sixth penny sales tax money to build the facility, and another $1.75 million from other funding sources also helped pay the total cost of $26.75 million.

In addition to the Cheyenne Police Department, the building will also house the Cheyenne Fire & Rescue Administration as well as the Laramie County Combined Communications Center and a back-up Emergency Operations Center.