Wawa's looking to kick the OPP out of their downtown detachment.
In their meeting Tuesday night, Wawa Municipal Council approved a resolution to cancel the Ontario Provincial Police satellite office within the Town Hall building at 40 Broadway Avenue by the end of 2022 - once vacated, the Municipality would hire an engineer to review the building's condition and consider redesign options to ensure the municipal offices, council chambers, and library meet accessibility requirements and operational needs, with Council told that could potentially include returning GIS staff and the municipal servers to the site, which would allow for the possible sale of the municipal building at 3 Maple Street, a move that was noted to have benefits including more tax revenue and lower maintenance costs for the Municipality.
The resolution also commits the Municipality to press OPP headquarters and other provincial authorities to make a new local detachment a "high priority" - Council was told they'd previously indicated land between the Tourist Information Centre and the Ontario government building on Highway 101 could be used for that purpose, with options including "contributing" that land, leasing the land, or building a facility there that could be leased.
The OPP's had the downtown detachment since the municipal Wawa Police Service was dissolved in 2011 - it had been their headquarters prior to that.