Nova Scotia gets $4.7-million to target gun violence, human trafficking – CTV News

April 25, 2019

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia is getting $4.7-million over five years in federal funding to help address crime, including gun and gang violence and a growing human trafficking problem.

The money announced Wednesday from Ottawa’s $327-million Gun and Gang Violence Action Fund, will go toward developing a gun and gang violence strategy, improved intelligence gathering and enhanced training for police officers and Crown attorneys.

Funding will also go to a variety of groups and organizations dealing with the effects of street-level crime.

Provincial Justice Minister Mark Furey said the assistance is welcome in a province where 40 per cent of homicides were gun-related in 2017.

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