This is welcome news in rural Saskatchewan.
The team will consist of 258 armed officers with arrest and detention powers, including:
- 120 police officers from RCMP and municipal police services
- 60 police positions currently deployed to the Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan Initiative
- 30 new police positions and 30 repurposed police positions currently funded by the Ministry of Justice
- 40 Ministry of Highways commercial vehicle enforcement officers with expanded powers
- 98 Ministry of Environment conservation officers
Seriously? 38% of the new Law Enforcement officers are dedicated to Environmental crimes?
Tell me Sask. residents … do you feeeeeeel “safer” now ? I imagine a new best-selling Novel named “In Cold Carbon” which details the horrific rural crime of a farmer who ploughed-over a “shallow pond” causing untold mayhem to Mother Gaia. And then went home and built a “dirty” wood fire.
Here in the Bay Area, the CA Air Resources Board has deployed hundreds of “sniffers” to detect anyone burning a fire on “No Burn Days” which are declared by CARB. You will be FINED if you dare burn paper wrappings in your fireplace on a certain … Christttttttt ian… holiday. Seems there is always a “temperature inversion” on the Chrissssssstttttt ian Holiday (not to mention every other cold day, when one might enjoy a fire).
A bit fuzzy. I don’t think that these are additional police; they are the police we have, just re-organized with a new spin. If this really is targeted at the rural crime and real investigations (and arrests – in too many cases it isn’t hard to come up with suspects) that are now is being ignored as “too busy; just file a report”, then hopefully good.
But if what really happens is more speed traps in redundant slow zones beside abandoned schools; that seem entirely focused on making ticket quotas and revenue for the province, then worse than nothing.
There seems to be a staffing problem with our contracted provincial police force: the national entity that it draws from has been infected with politically correct HR issues; the result is positions in our province that are not filled; or worse positions that are filled by officers who have issues that limit their employment, putting more of the normal workload on their comrades or leaving gaps in policing. Like any big bureaucracy where it seems no one can be just let go, and everyone deserves a full paycheck even if they can’t work a full job, they have to fill a job position somewhere. The same situation exists in the military: every injured soldier who is allowed to “stay on” means that someone else has to backfill the job he or she is being paid for. It does not take many of these to create a crisis in small detachments.
I would like to hear that the province has pushed to get 100% of what we contract for, in addition to getting the police force it pays for focused on the priorities that its citizens have; with the PC stuff from Ottawa kept in perspective.
As an aside, I am not sure what is meant by “arrest and detention” powers. Arrest is something any citizen can effect (but be prepared to justify yourself); the difference if you have the “powers of a peace officer” is that you then have a duty to arrest and uphold the law. Detention has a legal meaning that I doubt is intended here; but if they mean kept in custody pending a hearing, this is a process flowing from statue or policy; not a power granted an individual (who is not a judge, and then only after a finding).
One of the many reason. I left that once great state.
Pitty.
now just who the f are they going after. My best guess is white freaking Canadians and any illegal will get all the benefits that the idiots on the supreme court says they can have. not you or me, we are haram, and f ing evil.
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saskatchewan sure isn’t the most dangerous place in the country…
jane, finch… jane finch… that sounds so familiar…
“She was stabbed multiple times; I’m not talking once, I’m not
talking twice, I’m not even talking three or four times,” Const.
David Hopkinson said.
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Well I guess those RCMP out there would rather write traffic tickets in Saskatchewan than act as Bell Hops in Quebec. Could not believe what I saw on TV, RCMP Officers carrying luggage for illegal immigrants who were crossing the border without any pre-clearance, ID or other documentation, and claiming to be refugees escaping persecution in the US.
Well this is awkward… haven’t we promised the UN that we are committed to finding ways to reduce indigenous incarceration rates? How will more policing help that? Wouldn’t these police be better deployed hunting down voters who have questions about our immigration policies – you know racists, Nazis and kitten torturers.
“crossing the border without any pre-clearance, ID or other documentation”
globalnews had an item on haitian refugee claimants being busted
for possessing child porn… assume it was on cell phones?
you throw open your borders, you takes you chances… right justin?
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“I saw on TV, RCMP Officers carrying luggage for illegal immigrants”
I think I saw pictures of the Mounties breast feeding their babies.
Conservation officers are what we used to call game wardens. There job is essentially to stop poaching.
Some time ago a friend of mine from Toronto was visiting family in Saskatchewan as I was passing though, and we got together and took a few drives in the country.
He commented on the large number of “Rural Crime Watch” signs everywhere.
I told him, “Well, Saskatchewan people are very sociable. They wouldn’t dream of committing any serious crimes without inviting the neighbours over to watch.”
98 Ministry of Environment conservation officers.
There’s no money in arresting anyone but the white middle class that pays the bills. They don’t want “Game Wardens” because they’d like to keep power Federal not Provincial.
BTW
“Pot legalization must account for ‘systemic racism’ against blacks: MP”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/pot-legalization-must-account-for-systemic-racism-faced-by-black-people-mp/article36055041/
The team will consist of 258 armed officers
I suppose if you have more police officers than people in the area, that will intimidate the criminals.
The new team of 258 officers will be spread over the entire province and none of them will meet any of the other 257 who they don’t already know. It’s a new “team” only in the press release.
Exactly. There will be proof in the pudding. Not holding my breath.
So, JAB, you’re thinking late August is a little too early for a gov’t. snow job.
Me, too.
30 more officers aren’t going to replace the 100-200 the RCMP are shorting us on.
98 Conservation Officers covering all of Saskatchewan is a joke. They are stretched too thin for even fish and game enforcement and monitoring wildlife populations.
Pretty much, they work alone. They might be able to provide backup to an armed home owner trying to fend off a gang. If they were near enough. Though, at least, they know how to shoot.
If there is a farm invasion, only armed victims can defend themselves in time to prevent grievous bodily harm, rape or death. Or stop an armed robbery.
Armed neighbours close by, they might make it in time to assist.
The CTV news article has a close-up photo of man’s hands handcuffed behind his back.
That symbolizes police working under a system favouring the protection of criminals.
My ignorance of Canadian terminology … nevermind. It’s a GOOD thing to stop your new Somali neighbors from the illegal “taking” of neighborhood house pets – for dinner.
I have a problem with media reports of RCMP activity.. They never provide the names of those arrested or fined… It is a PC list that does NOT provide the Public with the necessary information of whom to avoid.. Shaming is a real and effective method of prevention, the RCMP shames themselves…
An real “funny” example of a typical Saskatchewan RCMP report…Investigated a Manor(Town) complaint of loud music, found the Town was having a Street celebration. TRUE
just a little more harassing of law abiding citizens. criminals, not so much.
A few nights ago at a local fair I saw 2 female RCMP constables walking together through the midway on patrol. They exuded the true picture of our national police force, a true sign of protecting the citizens. Or was it each other? Both of the ladies were under 5’3″
I felt sooooo safe watching the local natives looking down and over their shoulders smirking at them.
At least the private security were all over 6’2″
Guaranteed the new force will all have portable scales to enforce the law and protect us from rural crime…..