Topping Out Ceremony at the New Wicomico County Public Safety Building

Major Tod Richardson signing his signature on the last steel beam to be placed in the new Wicomico Public Safety Building.

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. 

Aerial Image of the New Wicomico County Sheriff’s 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.

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Exterior Rendering of the Front Entrance at the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office.
Exterior Rendering of Apparatus Drive-Thru Bays at the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office.
Exterior Rendering of Secured Parking Lot and Apparatus Drive Through Bays at the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office.