A? - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 4, 2001 Cuts will affect policing service, inspector warns RCMP CUTS imposed by the city to save money may lead to teduced ser- vice in areas Hike com- munity policing, says In- specter Doug Wheler. The RCMP commander here says the elimination last week of two support staff and the freezing of the number of officers. at present levels will in- crease the overall work- load of all other staff. tachment’s court liaison officer will force him to reassign other support staff, and possibly part of an officer's time to handle court scheduling and file transfers. “That means stealing away from other front line resources to deal with court liaison,” Wheler said. “That could affect community policing, school liaisons, and bike patrols — all those things that communities want to have done start to suffer.” Community policing — a full-time jab for one officer — involves prevention, working with schools, and volunteer organizations such as Citizens On Pa- trol, Neighbourhood Watch and Crime Stoppers, he added. “They're like the bow of a ship,” Wheler said. “Without those kinds of services it has serious ta- mifications.” “It would be unfortunate if we were lo start to have to lose that kind of resource.” ~ Each position removed has a domino effect within the detachment, he added. “tt has an effect all the way along and ultimately it has an effect on service delivery to the commun- ity.” It also hurts morale, he added. “Once morale drops it’s not limited to one area, it goes throughout the de- tachment.” The detachment is just recovering from a pro- longed period of shortage without enough officers, he said. | The city move to freeze the number of city-paid of- fieers at 24, rather than filling a vacancy to bring the number up to 25, is a blow. “We appreciate the city is trying to balance their budget,” Wheler said, adding he and his staff will work hard to operate with- has set out. “lf 1 have a position that is frozen, something has to give,” he warned. “We can anly do all the work we're supposed to do when we have a full con- tingent. There’s going to be a reduction in. service somewhere.” ‘He said he'll likely operate with one less mu- nicipal traffic officer to deal with the freeze on of- ficer hiring... .. . That would effectively - reduce enforcement of im- paired driving, speeding in school zones, and general policing support in town. He said he'll seek -ap- Insp. Doug Wheler proval for an extra provin- cially paid support staff pdasition, but said thal could take some time, if it’s approved at all. in the constraints council From front Council approves small tax increase share of RCMP expenses would rise $315,000 and it’s expecting to pay $90,000 more this year for natural gas. “We had to ask administration to pare thieir budgets and to in fact absorb those increases,” George said. The policing increase was trimmed by council’s deci- sion last week to eliminate two support staff positions and not replace an officer. “That bit won't be quite as bad as we originally anti- cipated,” George said, Council on Friday decided to squeeze one more item inta the budget, with money to come out of the dwind- ling surplus. - - en pane tity Mote md : Councitlors Olga Power and Ron Vanderlee pushed to * spend $7,500 a year statting this year to add about 50 street lights per year, gradually brightening up city streets. “T get a lot of comments about how dark our streets are,” said Vanderlee. Council also decided to begin putting money towards a building reserve fund for when it needs io build a new fire hall, city hall or RCMP building. Clarification BOB ERB, a potential Skeena candidate for the B.C. 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