ARC 005- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 7 (Community
Architecture and Urban Design
PHINMA- University of Pangasinan
College of Engineering and Architecture
RSW #.1
Ar AR. LESTER V. GARCIA
Instructor
REYNALYN F. NADAL
Student
A police station (sometimes called a "station house" or just "house") is a building which
serves to accommodate police officers and other members of police staff. Police stations
typically contain offices and accommodation for personnel and vehicles, along
with locker rooms, temporary holding cells and interview/interrogation rooms.
Design of Police Building
Functional relationships
Administrative line officers should be clustered together. Booking, identification,
and detention procedures must be linked in such a way that time and travel distance
are reduced in order to conserve staff resources and avoid security issues.
Public Considerations
To avoid exposing inmates to the public as well as eliminating the chance of harm to
either, public access should not conflict with inmate passages or places.
General Design Considerations
Parking facilitates must accommodate vehicles from agencies that use the facility,
on-duty workers, clients, and guests, as well as sufficient space for emergency needs.
There should be a separation between official public needs. The location of parking
spaces should provide easy access to the building depending on the type of use.
Communications, Records, and Evidence
Radio consoles, monitoring units, teletype machines, alarm systems, and
telephones,should be kept in an air-conditioned, acoustically treated room.
Noise-generating machines should be kept in acoustically protected cabinets within
the services area.
Detention and Related Facilitates
Provisions should be made for convicts to be kept in separate security locations
before being booked in order to prevent them from disposing of potential evidence or
transmitting dangerous weapons.
All but audible and visual isolation between visitors' and attorney rooms is required
between prisoner and the visitor
Within the booking area, preferably under a desk, a separate and safe storage place
for convict's personal belongings should be provided.
A gun receiving and storage space at the jail entrance ought to be added as well, to
ensure police officers can turn in their guns to the officer in command before
entering the detention area.
The facility must possess a special portable extension telephone for prisoner usage
and placed in a secure and private spot within the confinement area
Provisions for Multiple Use
Classrooms, assembly areas, and other spaces can be designed to build a complex of
interconnected multifunctional facilitates with enough flexibility to be used for roll
call,training classes, police community relaxations meetings, public hearings, scout
troop meetings, and other functions.
Service Facilitates
The communications center and the records once must be positioned next to each
other, facilities for direct data transfer must be provided during hours when clerks are
on duty in the records once.
The property room should also be near the records center and the public information
on counter or desk.
Restrooms, filing cabinets, and additional employee space should be provided near
the communications center during intense work periods.
Administrative and Investigative Offices
The head of police and top-level command officers should have a certain amount of
mobility and privacy, depending on the size of the department.
For the same reasons, the offices of the youth unit, the vice unit, and the intelligence
unit should be positioned away from major routes of traffic. They should, be located
near the police officers' entrance to the records area.
The arrangement of investigator’s work areas should be straightforward and free of
the honeycomb or cubbyhole style that is common in many stations.
Investigators should have individual lockers for clothing and equipment needed
for daily work, as well as a small filing cabinet for paperwork related to current cases.
Other administrative offices, such as those used for training people, planning
personnel,and internal affairs personnel, should also be included in the same location
so that the command staff is adjacent to these support units. These working rooms
should likewise be mostly open, with only a few secluded spaces.
There must be enough room for numerous inmates to be taken from the prisoner van
without harming the officers involved. This portion should preferably not be seen
from the rest of the garage.
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Windows close to jail quarters should have steel bars or steel detention sash with
screening devices and be inaccessible to prisoners.
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For cash and important items, a secure storage area should be provided.
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Firearms, weapons, and drugs should be kept in strong, securely sealed cabinets that
are inaccessible to prisoners. It should be stored in areas away from jail cell sand
passageways.
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Exposed electrical installations, wood dividers, straw sacks, paper, trash, and other
programmable materials should be avoided. Fire hoses in lockable cabinets should be
accessible for inspection by jail personnel.
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There should be a central detective once large enough to accommodate all detectives
for briefings and directions. Furthermore, there should be modest rooms adjacent to the
main detective once that can be used for interrogation.
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Desired, to be positioned in such a way that inmates could shuffled back and forth
from the confinement quarters to without coming into contact with the general public.
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A visiting room should be available to encourage informal conversation
understatement supervision. The convict's entrance should be on the jail side, while the
visitors' and attorney entrances should be on the public side. A fine mesh double
screening or heavy plate glass windows should be used to separate prisoners and guests
inside the room.
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Attorneys, probation officials, and social welfare professionals should have their own
interview space.
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If correctly positioned, this chamber can also be used as an examination room for the
medical officer. For medical facilities, a locked steel cabinet for medical equipment
can be mounted on the wall in one of the examination rooms.
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A refrigerated room and a locked storage closet should be provided. The kitchen
should have a stove for top and oven cooking.
If it is a two-story building, a single kitchen on the first floor is preferred, with
dumbwaiters and a pantry on the second story.
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Should be included in the jail, along with modern-style equipment and a sterilizer for
clothing and bedding.
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Should be placed in a sufficiently large open area to ensure that mops and cleaning
supplies can be hung on racks exposed to sunlight and air. This janitor's room should
be well ventilated and off-limits to inmates.
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Male and female convicts must be kept apart at all times. Other separation are
required. Inmates who are mentally ill, contagious disease carriers, and known sex
perverts must be segregated.
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The cells should be designed to provide optimum security for prisoners serving
sentence.
Individual cells are recommended for any jails with limited accommodation.
Cells for women inmates, where women are rarely confined, can be utilized
for juveniles.
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The cell beds should be metal and come with a clean mattress, clean sheets, a
mattress cover, blankets, a pillow, and a pillowcase.
The toilet and washbowl should be prison-style.
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the convicts' living quarters should have access to natural light, and the walls should
be painted in light colors. Where illumination is dependent on electrical fixtures, the
fixtures should be built-in, tamper proof, and have tempered plate glass fronts for
bulb protection.
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A receiving garage should be created adjacent to or as part of the structure, to ensure
cars may drive in directly from the street or alley.
This garage should not be utilized for parking, but rather for transporting inmates
who have been brought to the police station.
The jail elevator should be located so that it is easily accessible from this garage.
DESIGN CONSIDERATION FOR POLICE STATION
There is no template or formula for a successful police station design. Many
stations have similar components or core functions, but personnel use them in
different ways and need them to perform to different standards
Police Station Location
Location of a new police headquarters or station is key to its ability to serve the
community. Oftentimes, citizens want to feel close to the station or want it to be a
visible and accessible part of the neighborhood or city—not an unapproachable
place at the edge of town. This makes them feel safer and more connected to the
force.
Different Building Uses
Law enforcement facilities are unique because of their dramatically different user
groups. This can include officers, detectives, administrative staff, public safety
communications/dispatch personnel, individuals in police custody, and the general
public
Technology Needs
A crucial component of an effective police station is technology system design.
The devices, software, and systems that police departments use are evolving. From
dispatch to patrol to forensics, consider all of the systems you need in place and
operational as soon as you move in
Connection with the Community
Police station design is no longer just about building a secure, operational building.
More than ever before, integration and relationship building with the community is
a significant component of effective law enforcement. Consider how you can
connect your new space with the community surrounding it, while maintaining the
necessary level of security
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