Mayor Mike Duggan, Chief James Craig, City Council Members, local community leaders, business owners and residents attended the ribbon cutting Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at the new 5th Precinct building. (Photo by HB Meeks/Tell Us Detroit)

It's official, DPD 5th Precinct now open for business. On Conner just south of Mack, in Detroit

By Wendell Bryant/Tell Us Detroit

DETROIT (Tell Us Det) - In September of 2005 The Detroit Police Departments' 5th Precinct located at the corner of Jefferson and St Jean closed its doors for the final time and moved to 11187 Gratiot where they joined the 9th Precinct to create the Eastern District.

And now, ten years later, a new 5th Precinct building has opened its doors with great fanfare for Detroit's east side neighborhoods.

Mayor Mike Duggan, Chief James Craig, City Council Members, local community leaders, business owners and residents attended the ribbon cutting Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at the new 5th Precinct building.

Chief Craig said, "We have made a vow to our citizens that we were going to make our neighborhoods amongst some of the safest neighborhoods in the country and putting our precincts back in a location where all citizens will have access to them is just one more step towards meeting that goal."

The 5th Precinct will be providing a wide range of professional police services to Detroit citizens and visitors in the far-eastside of the city. DPD states all concerns relative to police services are taken seriously. One of the missions will be to develop ties with the community and business sector to create a different form of police presence for non-emergency and recurring quality of life issues.

With the reopening, the department took another big step towards putting Police Precincts back into the neighborhoods. The new 5th Precinct building is located at 3500 Conner just south of Mack Avenue on Detroit's east side. Construction took about a year and a half to complete.