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By Ben Tompkins

Look Ahead

Melfort RCMP has multiple goals set for 2024

Jan 10, 2024 | 6:00 AM

The Melfort RCMP has set a few goals for the next 12 months, as they’re hoping for a productive 2024.

In the past few months, they have seen some success in finding and arresting people who have been on their radar for some time.

According to detachment commander, Ryan Case, the positive impacts stretch beyond just the community in which said individuals were taken into custody.

“It takes a little bit of work to locate these people and once you have them in custody, it has an effect on the entire area as a whole, because they have that much of a negative effect on the region. We’re going to keep working on getting the people into custody that need to be in custody.”

Some of these criminals could be those who deal in violent crimes, which have been shown as on the rise.

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While Case said it may not be as specific to this particular area, it is something that they are dealing with.

“Hopefully over the next year, we can see a bit of a downturn in some of the crime…everywhere is seeing an increase, more on the violent crime side of things. I don’t want to say that we’ve seen that increase here, but we certainly have our fair share. Anything we can do to have those numbers start spiralling down a little bit we’ll do,” he added.

“Every community in this province has seen and had some sort of crime impact, none of us live in a bubble and it’s affecting us as much as anybody.”

The final things that the detachment has its eyes on are public relations and impaired driving.

Case told northeastNOW that Melfort is dealing with a slight issue of people driving under the influence.

“There seems to be probably too many impaired drivers out on the road and that’s something we’re going to work towards over the next year is increasing the number of impaired drivers that are apprehended by the police. Rather than just continue doing what we’re doing, we’re going to try and deal with as many situations as possible.”

As for the relationship with the community, Case explained there is sometimes confusion from the public. Whether it’s what the police do and how they do it, or what they are capable and authorized to do.

“I just want to keep increasing the public contact and public education… just address those issues, introduce the community members to who their detachment is and just kind of some lists as to the RCMP as a whole and as a brand. Let them bring anything to the table that they might want to raise with us,” Case mentioned.

The plan is to have a town hall meeting at some point in 2024.

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