Vancouver police unveiled their new $30-million property and forensic storage facility Tuesday that they hope will improve the force’s operations.

The 87,000-square-foot building on Glen Drive boasts the country’s largest rotating bicycle rack, which holds up to 465 bikes, 12 to 15 metres in the air.

The new facility also houses blood-drying lockers, a bigger garage to process vehicles, and refrigeration systems for blood and DNA exhibits.

Evidence from high-profile cases such as the Stanley Cup riot is also stored on automated document storage units.

“Being able to secure the evidence and examine it will mean more offenders being identified … and more convictions,” Chief Jim Chu said.

Facility manager Ian Wightman said the new facility is “500 per cent better” than the old building at 312 Main St.

“In the past on a four-day long weekend, we would come into the old property office and evidence would be piled on top of evidence,” Wightman said. “Now we come in and nothing’s on the floor.

Everything has been put away … nice, neat and tidy.”

Mayor Gregor Robertson said it was a great investment by the three levels of government and this will strengthen the VPD’s work to keep the city safe and drive crime rates down.

The VPD’s investigative and administrative departments have also expanded and relocated to the former VANOC building on Graveley Street. The municipal, provincial, and federal governments committed $45.3 million to the projects.