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Work starts in Kent on New Police premises

Work has now started on the new divisional headquarters at Thamesway, Northfleet for Kent Police with Deputy Chief Constable Jim Barker-McCardle and Kent Police Authority member Ken London, making the first excavation on site. This new facility for the North Kent area of Kent Police will be ready by early Summer 2008 and will be supplemented by 2 additional Town Centre police stations at Gravesend and Dartford. The £30m PFI project has been signed with Justice Support Services (North Kent) Ltd, a Reliance led consortium including Bank of Scotland Corporate and Kier Project Investments.

Mark Underwood, Managing Director of Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd stated; “We are delighted to have secured this contract with Kent Police.  It emphasises our strong track record as a leading provider of support services to the police. Our partnership is directed at offering innovative business processes and high levels of service. This enables our customers to achieve improved use of their infrastructure and highly trained people. Our objective is to facilitate Kent Police in their drive to consistently improve their day to day operations.”

The police operational centre, a modern environmentally sensitive building, will house a custody suite of 40 cells, offices for police and civilian staff, and the division’s store for evidential and Lost & Found property. Reliance will continue to maintain the premises for the next 30 years providing services that include the public front desk, catering, cleaning, waste management, conference suite management and police vehicle management.

North Kent Area Commander Chief Superintendent Gary Beautridge said:  “We aim to provide police stations and officers to make it easier for people to contact us in person, perhaps to report crimes, raise concerns or seek advice. These buildings will be more visible and provide a more welcoming environment than the existing older buildings. The move of support services will not affect our front-line policing – our response to calls is coordinated from our force control centre in Maidstone.  Our neighbourhood officers also provide an approachable link for residents. The new operations centre should help make us more efficient, allowing us to provide a better service to the public.”

The 11,500sm facility makes the most of modern architectural innovations and the 4 storey building incorporates a central atrium and “Street” providing a communal area and space for break out areas and restaurants. An environmental friendly design incorporates a geothermal heat pump system for heating and cooling the building which will reduce its energy consumption. The latest CCTV and security access systems will be utilised and installed by a sister company; Reliance High Tech.

Reliance will be responsible for ensuring Kent Police make a smooth transition to the new building, with the utmost importance being placed on the continuity of policing for the community.

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Notes to Editor:

Reliance Secure Task Management is part of the Reliance Security Group plc, an established market leader in the provision of support services, contract security, electronic surveillance and facilities management.  The Group employs over 12,000 people from a network of offices throughout the UK.

For more information please contact
Scott Williams, Marketing Manager, Business Development,
Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd
tel: 01454 634 242   email:  scott.williams@reliance-stms.co.uk

The complete list of Services provided by Reliance within this contract is;

  • Design & Construction of a Divisional HQ for the Northern Division of Kent Police Contract Management

    o Helpdesk
    o Health & Safety for the building –ISO 9001/2000 & BSEN14001 accreditation for all services

  • Estate management

    o Horticulture
    o Hard & Soft Facilities Management

  • Public counter / Front Desk personnel at both HQ and Gravesend & Dartford Police Stations
  • Catering

    o General canteen & hospitality
    o Emergency feeding

  • Cleaning
  • Waste Management
  • Logistics

    o Fleet Management
    o Transportation of Police staff   

  • Division’s Property Store

    o Evidential property
    o Lost & Found
    o Tape, CD/DVD and CCTV recordings

  • Conference facility management
  • “Churn” – furniture moves and restructuring of office space
  • Business Continuity
  • The transitional move into the new offices
  • All associated small works
  • CCTV provision and Security Access systems by Reliance Hightech a sister company to Reliance Secure Task Management Ltd.


CCTV and Security Access Systems will be supplied and installed by Reliance HighTech, also a division of Reliance Group PLC.

The Reliance Led consortium is to be known as Justice Support Services (North Kent) Ltd.
The consortium consists of;
    Reliance Secure Task Management
    Bank of Scotland Corporate
    Kier Project Investment
This has formerly been referred to as the RHK consortium – Reliance, HBOS, Kier consortium

The consortium is working with McBains Cooper – a property and construction consultancy.

This is the forth police project that Reliance has worked on with McBains Cooper.
   
The concept architects are Glenn Howells Architects
Structural Engineers are AKS Ward