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By Mat Barrett

RCMP Boundaries

Melfort, Prince Albert, Wakaw RCMP service areas changing for quicker response times, balanced workload

Apr 30, 2021 | 5:00 PM

Boundaries are changing for the Melfort, Prince Albert, and Wakaw RCMP detachments.

As of Saturday May 1, Melfort RCMP will be serving a number of different areas east of Prince Albert that were previously Prince Albert RCMP territory. Those areas include Birch Hills, Brancepeth, Crystal Springs, Dixon Lake, Hagen, Jumping Lake, Struthers Lake, Waitville, Weldon, Wolverine Lake as well as portions of Highway 3, 20, 25, 320, 682, 778 and 798.

Ted Munro, RCMP Superintendent for the Northern District, said the changes come to help make the detachments run a bit more efficiently. He said this change will make for quicker response times for those areas as Prince Albert RCMP has to drive through the city of Prince Albert to respond to those areas.

“When we look at it from the Melfort side,” Munro said. “Melfort detachment does not have to go through a major city, and you’re driving on a rural location, and they can respond quicker.”

Munro added that there were studies done to examine what would be the best way to organize those boundaries for each RCMP detachment.

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The adding of areas of service for Melfort will add some workload to the detachment according to Munro, but it will balance it out as he said Prince Albert’s workload is much greater than Melfort’s right now.

“The detachments are both very similar in size,” Munro said. “It’s just the workload is very significantly different in both of those locations.”

He said this will not affect staffing in either detachment.

Melfort RCMP will not only take some areas from Prince Albert, but from Wakaw as well as Meskanaw and more portions of Highway 41 will now be part of Melfort’s region.

Munro added that leadership in those communities were consulted through the process and approved the changes in the service areas.

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