AGAWAM — It might not be brand new, but the next headquarters for Agawam police is at least like-new.

Unlike the nearly 110-year-old building police call home, “this facility is designed to be a police station,” Mayor Christopher C. Johnson said during a recent tour.

In a converted insurance office, dispatchers already are answering 9-1-1 calls in the new police station at 1070 Suffield St. The rest of the police offices will move, bit by bit, over the course of the next two months.

For nearly 40 years, Agawam’s police have been housed in a former elementary school on Springfield Street in Feeding Hills. It was obsolete the moment police moved in, said Johnson, who began his first tenure as mayor a couple years after the move.

He said police offices were crammed into the existing rooms

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