Police Cove takes its name from the site’s later use as the Barrington Police Station, a one-story Colonial Revival building of Barrington Bricks with a raised basement that stood near County Road by the bridge until it was torn down in 2001. The building had originally been constructed in 1903 for the RI Suburban Railway Company by E.K. Watson of Warren at a cost of $13,000, and by 1921 it was identified as a transformer station within the statewide street railway system that operated from the 1890s into the 1930s and helped suburban communities such as Barrington grow. After trolley service between Providence and Bristol ended because of the company’s financial difficulties, the town acquired the site in 1930 and converted the building into a police station. Police Officer Joseph E. Pine Jr., who served from May 1975 to May 2002, recalled the spring and summer view of the Barrington River and the boats moored in the harbor that gave police access to the community by both land and water. John Lazzaro, the last chief whose department was based at the old station, helped bring about the construction of the new Public Safety Building at 100 Federal Road, completed in 1999. Police Cove Park was completed in 2015. Beside the site, the Barrington River Bridge, officially the Lance Corporal Victor Andreozzi and Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge, carries about 20,000 vehicles a day across the river. Its original 1914 span, refurbished in 1966, was an early reinforced concrete arch bridge designed by Daniel B. Luten’s National Bridge Co. of Indianapolis, was found eligible for the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, and was closed in 1997 after being judged structurally deficient. A temporary bridge then carried traffic until a new 800-foot bridge opened in 2009. The earlier bridge had taken four years to build, was damaged in the Hurricane of 1938 when boats were thrown onto it and nearby power lines, and a baluster from that 1914 bridge was later found during construction of the park.