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Nogales police outline plan for Public Safety Operations Center; aim to open PSAP by spring 2026
Summary
Police leaders briefed the City Council on plans to convert the old National Guard armory into a Public Safety Operations Center, including a new 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Point, needed infrastructure upgrades, and grant-funded equipment purchases.
Police Chief Carlos Jimenez and Assistant Chief Robert Gallegos told the Nogales City Council on April 2 that the police department is developing a Public Safety Operations Center (PSOC) at the former National Guard armory on West Western Avenue and aims to finish the new Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) by spring 2026.
The PSOC project responds to what department leaders described as aging facilities and growing operational demands. “It’s a fancy name for our 9-1-1 center,” Police Chief Carlos Jimenez said, describing the PSAP as the facility that would receive emergency calls and dispatch responders.
Gallegos said the current police building, built in 1972 and still shared with several city departments, lacks adequate space and secure areas to process arrestees, interview victims, or host trainings. He highlighted Nogales’s unusual operational profile for a city of its size: a daytime floating population in the tens of thousands and millions of cross-border movements and trade that increase public-safety…
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