Law Enforcement, Drafting Students Collaborate to Design Police Station

For the last three weeks, the Law Enforcement and Drafting & Design classes have been working jointly to create and design a law enforcement community. The project was to build a police station on 60 acres of land behind IVVC. The surrounding land should also be designed to appeal to the public. The students not only had to design the building using the latest CAD software, but also create a PowerPoint that would be presented to both the Law Enforcement and Drafting classes.



In addition, they had to build a model to illustrate the building. Before taking on this project, both classes were able to tour several police stations in the area. The Law Enforcement student was the liaison to the architects. Their job was to assist the placement of certain areas. In one design, the Law Enforcement student informed the Drafting students that juvenile and adult offenders cannot be in the same areas. This is an important piece of knowledge when constructing room placements.



The presentations were to be a minimum of 10 minutes; however, they averaged about 20, with one presentation going over 34 minutes. That particular presentation also had a tri-fold brochure which was an awesome handout.



The models were very interesting and the ideas of how a community could come together were very enlightening for most of the students.

The students had a great time presenting and learning why a police station is designed a certain way. Having the chief’s office right next to the firing range doesn’t seem to be such a good idea now.