Policing Services for Combatting Serious Crimes
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Alberta Urban Municipality Association encourage the Government to investigate opportunities with the RCMP to further enhance resources in addressing crime;
AND FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Alberta Urban Municipality Association encourage the Province to designate additional funds to assist in supporting adequate resources and manpower needed to continue the development of a strong proactive task force which focuses on combatting serious crimes within our communities.
WHEREAS the RCMP has initiated a trial combined service task force from a number of local detachments using resources from the surrounding smaller detachments and the adjacent larger urban detachment;
WHEREAS this focused task force’s main duty is to address ongoing serious crimes that appear to move from community to community;
WHEREAS this trial task force has seen great success in addressing unsolved crimes;
WHEREAS with the current limited financial resources, this important team/task force is limited to the current staffing complement due to staff being removed to other call out sources, which leaves the task force in abeyance.
Several years ago The City of Red Deer decided to crack down on crime. This project experienced good success while displacing numerous hot spots within the city limits. The unfortunate aspect of this project was that the persons of interest resettled in the adjacent communities and started up their illegal activities again.
As the smaller communities noticed a spike in crime, the local RCMP detachments revisited the process and formed a trial task force that shared information and manpower to address the increased crime. This has proven to be very successful. The unfortunate aspect is the detachments are very limited on resources to keep this task force intact addressing crime. The services provided by this task force are interrupted many times with other emergencies/staff shortages/vacations/illness, etc.
We firmly believe a concentrated force will be a great benefit to fighting escalating crime concerns in the listed communities.