A truck carrying the modular police station from where it was built in Sydney arrived in town on Thursday morning and was carefully backed into the block of land in Meredith Avenue purchased for the new station site.

It was the final few meters of backing the truck in that required the patience, with workers having to dig out dirt and position ramps behind the truck wheels multiple times before it gained enough traction to move into position.

From there, the station was raised, the truck moved and the station lowered onto its foundations. Works will now kick off to construct the concrete driveway, a shed and to landscape the site.

On site and overseeing the installation on Thursday was project managers from Modscape, the designers and builders of the modular police stations. The company has designed and built many of the new police stations being installed across the state, including the new station in Karuah.

The $1m Karuah police station, opened in 2019, was the first in the state to be built off site then installed.

The new Lemon Tree Passage Police Station is located at 50 Meredith Avenue, at the Gould Drive intersection.

The land was purchased by the state government for the new police station site in May 2020 and the house on the block demolished.

It came four months after the then NSW Police minister, Troy Grant, announced that $1.5m had been allocated to move officers out of the cramped Cook Parade quarters into a modern and "fit-for-purpose" station.

"The police station that exists here now is part of a leased private building that we've been very appreciative to have access to service this community but, simply, the expansion in police responses, demands and ability to house police equipment, this building is no longer suitable for that purpose," Mr Grant in January 2019.

The location of the new station raised some eyebrows and angered residents who had hoped the station would be installed in RAF Park at Tanilba Bay, alongside the ambulance and fire stations.

"We have had politicians, the police minister and numerous meetings about this and RAF Park at Tanilba Bay is where it was agreed it was to be built," long-time Mallabula resident Doreen Bradley OAM previously told the Examiner.

"The community has for years been pushing for it [police station] to be sited next to the ambulance and bushfire stations in RAF Park. The land is clear and flat and has two access points."

It is not yet known when the Cook Parade police station will be closed and officers will begin working from the new station.

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