Although $5.25 million has

been set aside for a new police headquarters and city courthouse for Fayetteville,

the facility has not yet been designed.

The location has already been

picked, however: land for the new building has already been purchased

on the east side of Jimmie Mayfield Boulevard at its intersection with

Bradley Drive. The site is just north of the boulevard's intersection

with Ga. Highway 92 South.

The city hopes to have the

request for proposals for the design and construction of the building

ready in about a month, said Maj. Steve Ledbetter of the Fayetteville

Police Department.

There is no more room left

to expand in the department's current facility on Johnson Avenue at Ga.

Highway 85, Ledbetter said.

"We are completely maxed

out," Ledbetter said.

The department is interested

in having more room to process evidence, Ledbetter said. The addition

of a holding cell for prisoners would allow security to be enhanced during

court session, Ledbetter added.

Currently, prisoners from the

jail are put on the front row during municipal court, which puts them

close to the general public, Ledbetter said. If there was an area to hold

the prisoners, officers could rotate the prisoners in and out as necessary,

he added.

The holding cell would also

cut down on the manpower needed to transport prisoners from the Fayette

County Jail, Ledbetter said.

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