Kansas City Missouri Police South Patrol Division
11109 Hickman Mills Dr.
Kansas City, Missouri 64134
(816) 234-5550
Watch the construction progress of the new South Patrol/Special Operations Division by webcam at this link: http://www.p-tn.net/pcam/KCPDSPNO/archivepics.asp . It’s updated at least every half hour while work is in progress, and you can watch a time-lapse slide show.
On the Horizon: A New South Patrol Division
Twenty-five acres of land at Bannister Road and Marion Park Drive in South Kansas City will soon be home to multiple police operations and buildings.
The site will be home to the new South Patrol Division, but it also will house the new Special Operations Division. Police broke ground at the site Oct. 28, 2010.
Major Jerry Gallagher, commander of the Facilities Management Division, said there were several reasons to put multiple buildings on one site.
“One is the converging interstate system provides ready access,” he said. “And two, it’s just the opportunity of economies of scale. We can do more for less.”
“The security of that police omnipresence will allow us to locate additional police facilities there in the future,” he said. The multipurpose building would offer a place for department personnel to get physically fit with a full gym and aerobics and weight rooms.
“We’ve got great workout facilities at the Academy up north, and we wanted to offer something similar down south,” Officer Rhonda Schulte said. But it will be much more than that. It will contain a briefing room for the Special Operations Division. A full-size basketball court will be designed with sliding doors to become part of the briefing room. The gym even could be a temporary shelter for residents in the event of a disaster. The multipurpose building also will house the Bomb and Arson Unit, Canine Section, Retirement Office and be a satellite location for the Kansas City Police Credit Union. And it’s being designed to accommodate the mass dispensing of vaccines in the event of a pandemic.
Officers with KCPD’s Capital Improvements Unit have been working with architects, civil engineers, landscape architects and leaders of the City’s Capital Improvements Management Office to fully design and plan the project. This police campus will have the SPD/SOD building facing the multipurpose building on a looped roadway, with parking in the middle.
Construction on the new SPD/SOD facilities is ongoing, and should be complete in late 2012 or early 2013.
