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McBains Cooper News
24/03/2010
First multi-million pound dual Police Authority PFI Initiative closed by McBains Cooper |
This follows the approval of the final business case by the Home Office.
The JSS Consortium comprises Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd, Kier Project Investment Ltd and Lloyds Banking Group. Funded largely by central government, the initiative will run for a 30-year term.
The PICs will be located at King’s Lynn, Aylsham, Wymondham, Great Yarmouth, Bury St. Edmunds and Ipswich where they will accommodate custody, detainee processing and administration functions.
Commenting on the complexities of reaching financial close on the first PFI project of its kind, Mark Leeson, director at McBains Cooper said: “This is the first PFI procurement in the police service to have been undertaken jointly by two Police Authorities together.
“It’s great to have secured financial close on such a complex project, especially as we had to liaise concurrently with six different local planning authorities, as well multiple stakeholders and interested parties for the six sites which are dispersed widely over two counties.
“While all the buildings have been designed around a common functional layout to encourage operational efficiency and familiarity for the two forces that will be using them, each building has been sympathetically adapted to meet the particular needs of its location. We have used a ‘kit of parts’ approach to the development of the design, where each site solution has used that kit in a different way to respond to aspects such as access, orientation, colour, existing landscape features, ecological concerns, as well relationships with neighbouring buildings. Each PIC will achieve BREEAM “Very Good” by using ground source heat pumps.”
Three of the developments will comprise 30 cells, two will include 24 cells and one of the buildings is an eight cell development.
Phil Townsend, a director of Justice Support Services said: “These centres will enhance Norfolk and Suffolk Police Authorities’ ability to deliver efficient and effective 21st century policing to the public, improve the working conditions of the staff, and allow them to optimise operational practices and procedures.”
McBains Cooper is providing a full interdisciplinary service including architecture, structural and civil engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering services as well as CDM, sustainability and cost management to the scheme.
The Police Investigation Centres are due to become operational in 2011. |
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