Stories Related to Voters Approve Funding For New Police Station

BETHEL — A long-debated new police station will soon become a reality after residents on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of funding the project. “I think what we approved in the end was excessive and insensitive to the virgin neighborhood it situates itself in and the school zone,” Infurchia said by phone Thursday night. The planned facility, at Judd Avenue and Route 302, is to be built on town-owned land south of Bethel High School. Supporters of the project have said the existing police station, which was built in 1974 on Plumtrees Road, is too small, that it floods during heavy rain and no longer complies with environmental regulations. The police department houses 37 officers and 12 civilian employees.

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