Cardiff Central police station ( cy, Gorsaf heddlu Canol Caerdydd) is a 20th-century

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located in

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in the centre of

Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...

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. Previously the

South Wales Police South Wales Police ( cy, Heddlu De Cymru) is one of the four territorial police forces in Wales. It is headquartered in Bridgend. The force was formed as South Wales Constabulary on 1 June 1969, by the amalgamation of the former Glamorgan Cons ...

's Eastern Division headquarters, the police station is currently responsible for policing the city centre.

Description

The current five storey Cardiff Central police station was designed by Cardiff's city architect John Dryburgh and built on the southern corner of Cathays Park between 1966 and 1968. It is described as "The most successful post-war building in Cathays Park" and the only post-war building in the area "to be both modern and majestic". The detention facilities at the station were inadequate with only four cells. These were replaced by sixty cells at the new

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, which opened in 2009. Running costs of Cardiff Central in 2011 was £1 million, with a £9.1 million refurbishment planned for 2015–16. Previously open until midnight from Sunday to Thursday and until 4am on Fridays and Saturdays, the current (2017) opening hours are 8am to 6pm.

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Cardiff Central Police Station
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