{"id":30230,"date":"2025-09-05T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=30230"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:07:30","slug":"media-advisory-lt-governor-to-join-state-and-elected-officials-for-official-opening-of-new-berlin-barrack-and-crime-lab-on-eastern-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2025\/09\/05\/media-advisory-lt-governor-to-join-state-and-elected-officials-for-official-opening-of-new-berlin-barrack-and-crime-lab-on-eastern-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advisory:  Lt. Governor To Join State And Elected Officials For Official Opening Of New Berlin Barrack and Crime Lab On Eastern Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(BERLIN, MD) \u2013 Lt. Governor Aruna Miller will join Maryland State Police Superintendent Colonel Roland L. Butler, Jr., Maryland Department of General Services Secretary Atif Chaudhry, other elected officials, and current and former members of the Maryland State Police for the official ribbon cutting of the new Berlin Barrack &#8220;V&#8221; in Worcester County.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new Berlin Barrack replaces aging infrastructure built in 1976 with a facility featuring expanded trooper briefing and classroom space, an improved vehicle maintenance garage, a secure sally port, and enhanced visibility from U.S. Route 50 in Worcester County. Berlin Barrack will also be home to an expanded forensic sciences laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>The Forensic Sciences Division \u2013 Berlin, equipped with 21<sup>st<\/sup> century enhancements and cutting\u2011edge forensic capabilities, will upgrade the forensic services offered on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. \u00a0In addition to the modernization of the Controlled Dangerous Substances Unit, which has served local citizens since 1991, on-site operations now also include the disciplines of Crime Scene, Latent Prints and Impressions, and Toxicology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Maryland State Police Berlin Barrack \u201cV\u201d Ribbon Cutting Ceremony<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tuesday, September 9, 2025 \u2013 1 P.M.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a09758 Ocean Gateway (Route 50), Berlin, MD, 21811<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>###<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTACT:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Office of Media Communications, <a href=\"mailto:msp.media@maryland.gov\">msp.media@maryland.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(BERLIN, MD) \u2013 Lt. Governor Aruna Miller will join Maryland State Police Superintendent Colonel Roland L. Butler, Jr., Maryland Department of General Services Secretary Atif Chaudhry, other elected officials, and current and former members of the Maryland State Police for the official ribbon cutting of the new Berlin Barrack &#8220;V&#8221; in Worcester County.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The new<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2025\/09\/05\/media-advisory-lt-governor-to-join-state-and-elected-officials-for-official-opening-of-new-berlin-barrack-and-crime-lab-on-eastern-shore\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30231,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230\/revisions\/30231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}