The sheriff’s office and Montgomery County Commissioners Court collaborated to open a new, larger office with a satellite jail, according to a March 22 statement from the sheriff’s office.
The new office, located at 19038 Unity Park Drive, is 16,760 square feet and cost $11.8 million, which was under budget, according to Sgt. Mike Evans. It has offices for detectives, conference areas, interview rooms, report intake rooms, a dock for unloading and loading arrestees, holding cells, detox, a visitation room and property lockers with room to expand.
“We have become the example, here in our county, of law enforcement staying and growing—ensuring for the people of this county that they’re going to have a safe place to live,” Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough said at the April 4 event.
The facility enables the sheriff’s office to serve the community better because officers no longer have to drive arrestees up to Conroe to be processed at the jail there. This process used to take deputies four to six hours depending on the complexity of the arrest, Sheriff Rand Henderson said at the opening reception.
“When they have to detain somebody, I know [the officers are] thinking ... ‘Is it going to take me two hours, or is it going to take me the rest of the shift just to do what I’m doing?’ And that’s why I’m so proud of this. This will eliminate that,” Precinct 2 Commissioner Charlie Riley said.
