APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) – A local law enforcement agency is moving into a new facility Wednesday.
The Outagamie County Sheriff’s Office is taking multiple of its divisions to 3030 East Goodland Drive in Appleton.
“We were just out of room. A lot of our office space has been taken over by other county entities. We had our staff crammed into some very small office spaces.”
While corrections and communications will stay in Appleton’s downtown Justice Center, Sergeant Nathan Borman notes most divisions will be housed in the new location.
“Our law enforcement services divison, which is really comprised of our patrol division, our investigators, our records clerks, and our civil process division, as well as the administration.”
Borman says the new facility opens its doors at 8 am Wednesday.
“The public aspect of our sheriff’s department will be out on our Goodland Drive location. The only need to go to the downtown location really would be to have any business contact with our corrections division.”
In addition to addressing their space concerns, Borman expects the move will improve officer response times.
“Most of our service area is north of the 41 and 441 corridor. This brings us right in touch with that corridor.”
Borman says the new facility will have a large training room for officers and a drug drop box in the entry way for the public to dispose of old medications.
The sergeant notes the facility was projected to cost $3,500,000 but says the actual cost is not yet available. Other alternatives were projected to run up to $6,000,000.
