Late change to police building

Press, 24 September 1980, Page 25

Late change to police building

PA Wellington; Security arrangements for the Police Department’s new national headquarters in Molesworth Street, Welling-

ton, have had to be altered after a security leak. Morrison Cooper and Partners, the architects for the new building in which the police headquarters will be housed, mistakenly included papers concerning security in documents sent out to contractors for tender, according to Mr O. Satherley, the secretary of Government office accommodation for the State Services Commission.

“What happened was that the document included a paper concerning the security equpment which should not have been included,” Mr Satherley said. The security paper should have been sent only to security firms.

“The security arrangements have since been altered,” he said. “It is a fairly minor matter, actually.” The State Services Commission has leased six floors, from the third floor up, of the new building. The police plan to move from their'present headquarters in Waring Taylor Street by the end of the year. ' The Police Department’s Director of Management Services (Superintendent I. Bird) said that very few copies of the specifications were distributed before the mistake was found. It was a minor matter to render obsolete the securityarrangements dealt with in the paper. Mr Bird said that a contract for new security provisions had been given to a private firm and that he was completely satisfied they would ensure the future security of the areas which had to be protected in the building.