The El Paso Police Department’s newest Upper East Side neighborhood headquarters, its first in more than 25 years, will be officially unveiled in a grand opening ceremony.
City officials are describing the new Upper East Side Neighborhood Command Center as a state-of-the-art public safety center for El Paso’s fastest growing neighborhood.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, at the new police station, located at 14301 Pebble Hills Blvd. The ceremony is open to the public. The center is located near Pebble Hills High School on city-owned property at the intersection of Pebble Hills Boulevard and Tim Foster Street.
The new $39 million Upper East Side Regional Command Center was part of a $413 million El Paso Public Safety Bond approved by voters in 2019.
The new police station will include public art, offices, secured parking, holding and interrogation rooms, a police fitness center, a municipal court bond area and a community room for public meetings.
A groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of the construction project was held in February 2022 and was attended by the late Police Chief Greg Allen and former Mayor Tommy Gonzales.
This is El Paso’s first new police station since the Mission Valley Regional Command Center opened in 1998.
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The east side was previously part of a police jurisdiction based at the Pebble Hills Regional Command Center, located about seven miles west of the new site on Pebble Hills Boulevard past Lee Trevino Drive.
The Pebble Hills Police District previously covered an area of approximately 55 square miles and a population of over 240,000. The Pebble Hills Regional Command Center opened in 1994.
El Paso currently has six police districts.
The El Paso Police Department currently has six area commands: Central, West Side, Northeast, Mission Valley, Pebble Hills and Upper East Side. Police officials said the department’s patrol area will be adjusted to incorporate the new area commands.
The police department is moving forward with plans to build a new police headquarters and a new central area command center on the site of the abandoned Bonham Elementary School near Airway Boulevard and Edgemere Drive in the Cielo Vista neighborhood.
