New Ptown PD Station Opens

Provincetown opened its long-awaited police station in late March, celebrating the department's move to a modern public safety building.

When did the new Provincetown police station open?

After years of wrangling, a long-awaited police station opened its doors in Provincetown on March 20, moving PD headquarter from a re-purposed funeral home to a $16M 21st century building designed for public safety use. The opening represents both a professional step forward for the department and a healthy move forward for the town, said Town Administrator Alex Morse.

Why did the town need a new police station?

The police department had been located in a former funeral home, a "temporary" location that lasted for years. During community tours held as part of the planning process, residents saw the building's mold, sewerage in the basement, persistent flooding, lack of space, and general lack of usability as a public safety center. However, debates over cost, building design, and siting stalled the process. At points the conversation became contentious, but Morse says this month's outcome and ribbon cutting shows the community that the town can indeed without successfully address multiple projects without pitting priorities against each other.

What is the new building like?

The new building's architecture integrates the history of both the Outer Cape's modern architecture and its tradition building materials with the  needs of public safety and a healthy working environment.  Morse said that during the most-recent planning efforts, transparency led to community support and the combination of both created a building that connected a sense of past to a hope for the future; a sense reflected in the final design.