Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux unveiled the repurposed former ICE Detention Center building at a press conference Monday that will house a training academy, as well as K-9 and Special Response Team units.

 

But the building won't hold federal immigration detainees as it had under his predecessor, Thomas Hodgson. The Bristol County Sheriff's Office lost the contract in 2021 following a riot in the building a year earlier.

 

An agreement where Bristol County Sheriff's officials could be deputized to perform limited immigration duties was also ended at that time by the federal Department of Homeland Security.

 

Heroux was asked whether he would be willing to reimplement those detention programs if approached by the Trump Administration.

 

"Not interested," Heroux said.

 

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