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Lewiston police Lt. Jim Theiss looks up at the lighting in the conference room Thursday afternoon in the new police station on Mill Street in Lewiston. The lights reflect the design of the city's new "beehive" seal. The department hopes to move into the new building by May 1.
The front of Bates Mill #7, the location of the new Lewiston Police Station at 140 Mill St. The department plans to move in by May 1.
One of several locker rooms at the new Lewiston police station.
Lewiston police Officer Olivia Bergeron opens one of the patrol officers lockers at the new Lewiston police station.
A large garage that was recently built on the side of the 1880 Bates Mill No. 7 will give mechanics plenty of room to work on vehicles as well as having a secure section, left where impounded vehicles will be stored at the new Lewiston police station.
One of the equipment storage rooms at the new Lewiston police station.
A section of the evidence room at the new Lewiston police station.
A section of the gym at the new Lewiston police station.
A section of one of the locker rooms at the new Lewiston police station.
A rock wall is left in it's natural state in the women's locker room at the new Lewiston police station.
A section of the gym at the new Lewiston police station.
Part of the cafeteria at the new Lewiston police station.
Tables will be setup in the former walkway over Mill Street that once connected buildings No. 7 and No. 3 at the new Lewiston police station. The windows are bulletproof glass and will be tinted for one-way viewing so officers can look out, but the public can not look in.
Instead of having to hold training offsite as in the past, trainings will be held in this room in the new Lewiston police station.
The exterior of the new Lewiston police headquarters as seen Thursday afternoon from the Lincoln Street side, where employees will park and enter. The general public will enter the lobby that will be accessed from Mill Street, back right. The department plans to move in by May 1.
One of the many hallways that still have the original wood support posts at the new Lewiston police headquarters.
The lobby on the second floor where the general public will enter the new Lewiston police headquarters.
Much of the lighting throughout the new Lewiston police headquarters reflects the design of the city's new "beehive" seal.
The inlaid badge on the floor in the lobby of at the new Lewiston police headquarters.
Throughout the new Lewiston police headquarters, there are giant beams that are part of the newly installed structural system that was required to be rated as a "Category 4" building. The vertical beams run from the ceiling and down 180 feet into the ground to ensure the "this building will be the last building standing in the city if there was a major event," said Lewiston Lt. Jim Theiss.
This room will be filled with computers and officers filing reports at the new Lewiston police headquarters.
One of several rooms that house the miles of conduit and other internal workings that power the new Lewiston police headquarters.
Lewiston police Lt. Jim Theiss demonstrates how the original folding shutters work in one of the offices at the new Lewiston police headquarters at Bates Mill No. 7. The department plans to move in by May 1.
Office furniture begins to arrive in the chief's office at the new Lewiston police headquarters.
The conference room on the top floor at the new Lewiston police headquarters.
Climate-controlled evidence lockers at the new Lewiston police headquarters.
Even though the evidence room is on the third floor, code required that there be bars on the windows at the new Lewiston police headquarters.