Lack of funding stalls PAPS efforts to implement some review recommendations
Almost all the recommendations made after a provincial review of the Prince Albert Police last year have been put in place, and the remaining ones require more money than the service has available.
Chief Patrick Nogier told a recent meeting of the Police Commission that the recommendations it was possible to do have been done, except for those needing extra cash.
“We’re going to try to accomplish as many as we can but some of them have a fairly hefty price tag that’s associated to them and we have to be aware of that,” Nogier said. “We have to be aware that we can’t always go to the well and ask for more. But when we identify certain things that need to be (done), sometimes there’s a cost associated to those, and we’ll try and be as transparent about why that cost is.”
PAPS was subject to a review by the province following the death of 13-month-old Tanner Brass in February 2022.