The commanding officer of the RCMP detachment covering Terrace and area has great hopes for a program targetting repeat violent offenders but is concerned he may not have enough officers for it to be fully effective.
“So to somehow say I can also get those members to do four overtime shifts each to target a repeat offender might be challenging. I still want to do it because the money’s there but I also have to be careful not to burn out our members.” The Crown counsel’s job in court “is to really hammer hard with the judge what this person is up to and making sure that they’re prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law so we can hopefully break that cycle of repeat offending,” Gillespie said.
The shortage of RCMP officers at the detachment was a consistent theme of Gillespie’s with the staff sergeant saying the detachment recently hit a new low of operating at just 70 per cent capacity.Still, Gillespie was optimistic that a range of recruiting and retention initiatives will be effective although it may take 18 months to see a change.
Gillespie’s appearance was to present the detachment’s activity report for the first quarter of this year from January to March.– Police officers were a little less busy than for the same period last year but “we still have a lot of violent crime going on and it is increasing from last year,” said Gillespie.
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