October’s operation
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- Published on Sunday, November 6, 2016
By Bruce Klassen
Chief of Rivers Police
Rivers Police Service responded to a total of 61 calls for service this past month. Our police service had received numerous complaints of poaching in and around Rivers; a joint forces operation with a provincial conservation officer resulted in a male being charged with three counts of illegal possession of deer. We would also like to congratulate everyone for being so well behaved on Halloween; police had no Halloween-related calls that evening. Following is the October statistics.
There were no violent Criminal Code crimes but we did open files in both property and other Criminal Code crimes. There were two charges of theft under $5,000 and two reports of property damage; these figures bring the year-to-date total of property crimes to 40. We had one drug charge, which falls into the Other Crimes section of the Criminal Code; there are now 24 cases in that section.
Traffic statistics remain quiet with no federal charges (only one thus far in 2016) and only one accident (11 to date). There were 14 provincial charges, all in the other category such as speeding, driving an unregistered vehicle, driving without a licence, etc. In the 10 months that have now passed, Rivers Police Service has opened 120 provincial traffic files and there is a grand total of 133 traffic offences.
The Liquor and Gaming Control Act (LGCA) was enforced twice, both for possession of liquor in an unauthorized manner. We were not called upon for breaches of peace or intoxicated person (IDPA)so our LGCA/IDPA tally thus far is 14.
Members enforced the nuisance bylaw twice and the animal control bylaw once. We also enforce burning and traffic bylaws; to date these four bylaws have created 32 files for our records.
Assisting the public continues to take much time with two calls for public, seven for other agencies and five to RCMP in the former RM of Daly. Our year-to-date total of assistance is 150 calls.
But by far, our miscellaneous section outweighs all; its number now reaches 251 cases. In October we had 22 calls (lower than the monthly average of 25): two for mental health, two noisy parties/disturbances, two complaints against police (the first of 2016), one alarm and 15 other miscellaneous calls, including unfounded complaints.
