Dispute Over Center

The West Virginia State Police say they don’t intend to occupy space reserved for them inside the Kanawa County Metro 911 building in Charleston, two years after officials agreed to consolidate communciations within the $14 million building. A new state police superintendent took over 8 months after the agreement was reached, and Col. Dave Lemmon told a reporter, “If anybody decided to move it out there, I don’t know whose decision that was. It wasn’t mine. We’re here, and we plan on staying here.” He says his dispatchers will stay at a newly-renovated center in South Charleston. “The situation we have now works for us and I think it’s working for them,” he said. Read more about the situation here.