Poughkeepsie police seek new HQ as their building slowly sinks

The Town of Poughkeepsie Police Department has started looking for a new home after engineers confirmed the current building is sinking into the ground.

According to a News 12 Westchester report, the building ”“ which also houses the Poughkeepsie Town Court and the Parks Department ”“ was originally a warehouse that was built decades ago on the site of a former landfill. Police Chief Joseph Cavaliere complained that the building is slowly falling apart, noting that “the floor comes down and the walls are pulling from it.”

Town officials are scouting new properties for the police department, but for Cavaliere the relocation cannot come soon enough.

“Financially, it”™s a waste of taxpayers’ money to continue to repair this building and bring it up,” he said. “This building was never intended to be a police station. It doesn”™t meet the standards of a police department.”