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English: Seen on a December 2022 evening is the Erie County Public Safety Campus at 45 Elm Street (corner South Division Street) just outside downtown Buffalo, New York. A five-story glass-and-steel structure designed by the locally-based architecture firm of CannonDesign, this state-of-the-art centralized facility for area law enforcement and emergency management operations began as a line item in the county budget unveiled in November 2001, in which $3 million was allocated for a proposal for a facility that would coordinate training and support for the various county law-enforcement agencies. Over the next few years, its scope was gradually expanded to include forensic labs, regional emergency services, 911 dispatch, and various other police and fire operations and to collaborate with the nearby City Campus of Erie Community College (now SUNY Erie) to create what the Buffalo News described as "a statewide academic leader in police training". Additional financing for the now-expanded project was derived from various sources, including a federal government aid package and settlement money from the 1998 tobacco industry litigation. The following year, the county purchased a former Goodwill Industries warehouse and demolished it to make way for the present structure, whose construction began in mid-2003 and lasted two years.