Work should begin in the next few months to replace Tāneatua Police Station, destroyed by fire two years ago.
Police have been keeping the Taneatua community updated on their new station through billboards erected at the site of the old one.
Photo: Charlotte Jones/LDR
Police unveiled the first designs of the new building this week.
It will be a police station like no other; there will no holding cells, no barriers in front of the counter, instead, there will be space for community hui and a cup of tea with police staff.
Area commander Stuart Nightingale said there would be one more meeting with the reference group to finalise the design for the base before building consents would be lodged with the Whakatāne District Council.