Indianapolis Public Safety Director has ordered 150 Indianapolis police officers and homeland security department personnel to immediately abandon the $18 million, public safety regional operations center at the former Eastgate Consumer Mall the Ballard administration rushed into use for the Super Bowl in 2012.
The center has been plagued by safety and hazard concerns since its opening. Last January, reports of ongoing code violations in the center surfaced after earlier reports of the need to deploy full-time fire safety personnel due to unsafe conditions at the facility. According to Public Safety Director Troy Riggs, the building still doesn't have an operating fire sprinkler system and fire walls designed to contain fire were not properly constructed.
The operations center will be relocated to a communications center operated by the Indianapolis International Airport on the west side, while the East District will operate out of the Police Training Academy at 10th and Post Road.
This is just another example of how large sums of taxpayer funds were blown all for the sake of hosting a Super Bowl without concern for the long-term consequences of such extravagant spending. Any source
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