PG RCMP Set 6 Priorities for Fiscal Year
Monday, June 25, 2012 @ 3:56 AM
Prince George, B.C.- The Prince George Detachment of the RCMP has developed 6 priorities for the current fiscal year.
The priorities were developed after consultation with Mayor and Council and various stakeholders.
1) Establish a Comprehensive Crime Reduction Program to deal with the issue of Prolific offenders in the community.
2) Target Organized Crime Groups
3) Continued Presence of the Downtown Enforcement Unit to increase safety in the downtown core.
4) Mitigate Risk of our High Risk Youth the RCMP’s Youth at Risk Ream will work with community partners to identify youth who are already committing criminal offences on a regular basis and change their behaviour via viable options.
5) Deliver Step In/Step Up Anti-Gang Youth Program so young people are not recruited into gang activity.
6) Establish a Domestic Violence Unit. Superintendent Stubbs says P.G. Detachment members attend more than 900 domestic violence calls each year.
Superintendent Eric Stubbs will be on hand at this evening’s regular meeting of Prince George City Council to outline details of the 6 priorities.
Comments
People killed injured on area roads and highways?
People killed injured by organized crime selling pot?
Which do you think has the highest number. If you guess organized crime, you would be wrong, but it’s the RCMP’s number 2 priority. Traffic enforcement – doesn’t make the list. Why is that? I’m just as dead or hurt no matter the source. Why wouldn’t they allocate resources to where they would save the most in life and limb?
The second priority on that list is targeting organized crime groups, which is far more encompassing than targeting people selling pot. If you think that organized crime is only involved with selling pot and that their negative impacts on society is limited to that said selling of pot, then you are mistaken.
So the question when becomes, would you rather the RCMP focus on traffic enforcement or organized crime as a whole? Heck, items 4 and 5 also have linkages to Organized Crime. Should they be dumped in favor of setting up more undercover shoppers at Zellers to catch people stealing dried fruit and candy bars?
Boy they are behind the times up there….every detachment in the lower mainland has a domestic violence unit.
7)set a good public example for us civilions!!!!
Those six ideals are not revenue producing adventures. Unless the Mounties fine the offenders. Follow the money Mounties. On the roads and the highways. Money for the taking. Maybe a tazering from time to time to just so we know who is boss. Besides if the RCMP don’t focus on traffic fines, where is PG city council gonna get their $250,000 dollars this year to help pay for…..our new Nissan Leaf?
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