Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office shows off new headquarters in Brooklyn

The Jacksonville Sheriff s Office has a new headquarters with twice as much space as its previous home. The 346,000-square-foot office houses administrators, detectives, 911 dispatchers and many other operations on 11 of 19 floors in the rebadged Florida Blue office building at 532 Riverside Ave. There also is a parking garage next door and a sprawling cafeteria. The new office replaces the 52-year-old Police Memorial Building on East Bay Street. Sheriff T.K. Waters joined Mayor Donna Deegan and City Council President Nick Howland at a ribbon-cutting Tuesday. Former Sheriffs Jim McMillan (1986-1995), Nat Glover (1995-2003) and John Rutherford (2003-2015) watched from the audience. Waters said he basically grew up at their former office, but the new place offers advantages, he said. Staff monitor traffic cameras and 911 call locations in the Sheriff s Office Real Time Crime Center. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today The morale for the agency is tremendous since we m