Topping Out Ceremony March 9, 2023
Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office celebrated another major milestone completion yesterday at their new Public Safety Building, as the last piece of steel was placed primary building structure. Members of the MWS design team were there with staff of the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office and Wicomico County’s County Executives Office.
The Wicomico County Public Safety Building is a new two-phase 78,000 GSF public safety headquarters facility located in Salisbury, Maryland. The first phase consists of a new 55,000 GSF headquarters facility for the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office. The second phase will house the County’s Department of Emergency Service and contain spaces consistent with Emergency Operations Centers and 911 Call Centers. The design of the project incorporates all of the aforementioned best practices associated with site design and organization. Interior program elements include a dedicated Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) and a separate Police Communications Dispatch Office (PCO).
Additional program elements include offices, duty desk, holding cells, evidence storage and processing, vehicle maintenance workshops, communications technology, interview rooms, and meeting spaces.