UMATILLA, Ore. – Umatilla is set to get a new police station following the recent election. Voters narrowly approved a $19.8 million bond measure to construct a modern police facility to meet the city's growing needs.

Currently, the Umatilla Police Department operates out of a 40-year-old triple-wide trailer that was once a city administration building

Officer Katie Skillman highlighted the challenges and tight working conditions.

"So you have an officer that's in here trying to get ready for shift while another officer is going back and forth, taking care of paperwork and processing, whatever that may look like,” Officer Skillman said. “So it can get kind of tight, I guess would be a good word for it, because now you're interfering with an officer's ability to get ready for shift a

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