The 184,000sf Staten Island Courthouse houses the New York State Supreme Civil and Criminal Courts, lower Criminal Court, and related agencies.  As the security consultant and engineer for the project, DVS was responsible for the design and coordination of security systems, sensitive to jurisdictional department partitions of law enforcement agencies, including Office of Court Administration, Department of Corrections and the New York Police Department.  The security criteria for the physical aspects of the Courthouse, site location and vehicular pedestrian access for the public, and staff and prisoner movement were all key elements of the security design.

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