May 26, 2026 - 1:59 pm

Sheriff Kevin McMahill said Tuesday that he hopes opening a new $12.2 million police substation in the east Las Vegas Valley will help tackle concerns about a homeless population.

The Metropolitan Police Department’s Hollywood Area Command will be fully operational in August, he said.

“In my 35 years of policing, we’ve dreamed about having a police station up here to provide full police services to the people that live in this community,” McMahill said during a news conference at the new station. “When we put stations in these communities, cops adopt these communities as their own.”

About 10 minutes earlier, construction workers had carefully placed the sheriff’s name in white lettering on the awning of the facility at 2300 S. Hollywood Blvd. The facility, funded through Clark County taxpayer dollars, broke ground in March 2025.

McMahill said the new station will also provide resources, including patrol and jail services, as county officials work to address issues related to the area’s homeless population.

“We’re working to take care of those folks in a humane manner, and when they refuse, jail becomes an option,” the sheriff said.

Staff from Metro’s Southeast Area Command, which is about 6 miles west, will temporarily relocate to the new facility while repairs are made to their station. After that facility is fixed, Southeast personnel will return, and the new station will operate with its own staffing.

County Commissioner Tick Segerblom and other Metro officials, including Undersheriff Andrew Walsh and Assistant Sheriffs Bryan Peterson and Dori Koren, also attended the news conference Tuesday.

Segerblom said residents in his district, where the facility is located, are eager to see the station open.

“It is such a demand here, people are so proud that they finally have a police station,” Segerblom said.

In May 2025, dozens of residents, including some who complained that people experiencing homelessness were intruding on their property and committing crimes, attended an informational event Segerblom hosted.

The county had just enacted a ban prohibiting the homeless from sleeping or loitering in public spaces and, finding it ineffective, embarked on a $15 million project that would, among other things, clear all encampments from an east-valley wash near Flamingo and Cambridge roads.

Segerblom said he was proud to partner with Metro in making east Las Vegas a safer and better place to live.

“When I started this job, the last thing I ever thought I would be most proud of was a new police station, but truthfully, I’ve come to know the police, and these guys are really social workers,” the commissioner added. “They are trying to help everyone.”

Contact Akiya Dillon at adillon@reviewjournal.com.