Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A number of the positions that have been provided in the budgets last year and proposed this year are going to help improve the policing in small communities. We've managed to provide relief units so we have more police available in regional centres like Inuvik to travel to communities like Sachs Harbour. In fact, the number of times that the RCMP have travelled to Sachs Harbour in the last nine months has dramatically increased over what was happening prior to the last year budget increase. So we are working with the RCMP to find ways to get the members into these communities for more trips and for longer times each time they go. But I will continue to work with the RCMP to see if we can't find a way to deal with the Sachs Harbour issue because we think that working with Parks Canada we might be able to find an opportunity there that doesn't significantly add to costs and will allow us to provide a force there permanently.
Charles Dent on Question 534-15(3): Policing Plans For Sachs Harbour
In the Legislative Assembly on March 3rd, 2005. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 534-15(3): Policing Plans For Sachs Harbour
Question 534-15(3): Policing Plans For Sachs Harbour
Item 7: Oral Questions
March 2nd, 2005
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