Fort Wayne Police Chief Rusty York came to City Council on Tuesday night to talk about crime statistics, but the conversation veered into a discussion on possibly co-locating his department with the Allen County Sheriff's Department.

Allen County Sheriff Jim Herman, who is in his last year in office, has wanted to get his department out of the rundown Kidder Building on Lima Road for several years. The Fort Wayne Police Department is leasing office space on Creighton Avenue. City officials have been looking at buying the Renaissance Building downtown once the library moves out at the end of this year, although any such move would require City Council approval. In the meantime, the city, which also leases space from the county in the City-County Building, re-signed its lease at the end of 2005 but left the door open to renegotiate it.