Its Police Station Bursting at the Seams, Weston Leans on Experience

Steps lead up to the brand new entrance for the Monroe Police Department near the Church Street side of the town hall campus. Green lights on either side of the two brick pillars bear white lettering that says "Police". Simple black lettering above the entrance says "Monroe Police Department."  

Some visitors used to have trouble finding the station in back of town hall, so part of the renovation and addition sought to make it more obvious from the street. The architect, Brian Humes of Jacunski Humes Architects, LLC, in Berlin, is the same one Weston hired to assess space needs for its own cramped police department.

"The town of Weston is planning to increase their existing square footage by approximately 70%," Humes told Patch. "A Space Needs Assessment has been prepared and adopted by the Board of Selectman and Police Commission. We have just been directed to initiate a Site Evaluation of their existing site to see if the Space Needs Assessment can be accommodated on their existing site."

Jacunski Humes Architects specializes in police and public safety facility planning, design and construction administration.

Other area police departments the firm has worked with include: Woodbridge, Redding, Bethel, Milford, New Canaan, Darien, Danbury and the Western Connecticut State University Police.