Public safety plan, restorative justice programs for Thompson part of provincial policing strategy – Thompson Citizen

May 23, 2019

The provincial government is providing $300,000 to help the City of Thompson, the RCMP and other organizations develop a public safety strategy as part of its Policing and Public Safety Strategy announced May 23.

The strategy focuses on eight key areas to help reduce crime in Manitoba, which has some of the highest rates in the country. These include improving intelligence-sharing and information among police agencies, targeting communities with high rates of violence, improving traffic safety, reducing demands that take police away from combating crime, providing better support to vulnerable people and victims of crime, expanding police participation in early case diversions, collaborating on policing initiatives affecting Indigenous communities, and enhancing community mobilization and hub tables, which bring multiple organizations together to co-ordinate crime prevention initiatives and keep at-risk people out of the criminal justice system.

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