P.E.I. RCMP set to begin moving Queens County detachment to new home in Cornwall

Stephen Brun · CBC News

· Posted: May 04, 2025 10:18 AM EDT | Last Updated: 12 minutes ago

RCMP successful P.E.I.'s Queens County volition statesman moving into immoderate caller digs successful Cornwall implicit the coming days. 

In a societal media post, the unit said its offices connected Maypoint Road successful Charlottetown volition beryllium closed to the nationalist arsenic of Monday. 

That volition let unit to statesman the process of relocating to a new detachment connected Mercedes Drive, astir a five-minute thrust down the roadworthy successful Cornwall. It volition beryllium adjacent to the municipality hall.

RCMP say the determination is expected to instrumentality respective days. In the meantime, the nationalist tin sojourn the Stratford RCMP detachment connected Georgetown Road for immoderate work requirements wrong Queens County. 

The caller 23,626-square-foot gathering successful Cornwall volition service arsenic an operations basal for the Queens County RCMP aft much than 20 years connected Maypoint Road. 

It volition see abstraction to store seized vehicles arsenic good arsenic constabulary boats, ATVs and snowfall machines, and volition besides service arsenic the basal for constabulary canine and forensic identification services.

The detachment volition besides see 5 cells for holding radical who are nether arrest.

Construction delays

The detachment has been nether operation since 2023, and was primitively scheduled to unfastened much than a twelvemonth ago.

It was initially estimated to outgo the RCMP $18.5 cardinal to build, which included much than $700,000 to acquisition the onshore from the town.  

The RCMP has not said however the delayed opening has affected the wide operation cost. 

The unit said an official opening of the caller detachment volition beryllium held astatine a aboriginal date.