Delay in recruitment means bail unit won’t be ready until fall, Winnipeg police chief says
A new bail enforcement unit will take months to get up and running, Winnipeg’s police chief says.
In February, the province set aside $3 million to hire 12 officers for the unit, which will focus on arresting people who pose a safety risk by breaching conditions of their release.
Recruitment for the unit will have to wait, however, because the service still needs to hire 24 officers for its downtown foot patrols, as well as replace officers who retire.
“We typically have 40 and 50 retirements a year,” Smyth told reporters after a meeting of the Winnipeg Police Board on Friday.
“We’ll backfill into those first. Anything that’s surplus, then we would start augmenting our foot patrol, and then the bail unit.”
The police service expects to have a graduating class of 48 cadets in May, and a second class of 48 later in the year. Smyth said the class sizes are double what the the police service would usually have.
According to Smyth’s report, around 20 per cent of violent crimes are committed by offenders on bail.
Falling safety perception downtown
A new survey suggests Winnipeggers feel less safe walking alone downtown, even during the day.
According to the latest citizen survey, conducted every two years, 57 per cent of men and 42 per cent of women said they felt safe in the daytime, compared to 62 per cent and 49 per cent in 2022.
Smyth said those numbers could be affected by recent events, such as high-profile crimes downtown, including a fatal stabbing inside the Millennium Library and another stabbing of a teen leaving a concert at the Canada Life Centre.
“Those kinds of things resonate with people, and I think you’re seeing a little bit of a reflection of that,” he said.
The phone survey by Public Research Associates, commissioned by the Winnipeg Police Board, polled 600 people in Winnipeg between Jan. 29 and Feb. 7. The results are considered accurate within four percentage points.
Delegate cut off
Friday’s police board meeting began with chair Coun. Markus Chambers telling delegates to maintain decorum or they would be cut off.
He then warned the first delegate, Inez Hillel of the police abolition group Winnipeg Police Cause Harm, after she accused the police service of killing and injuring people “with impunity.”
Hillel, who was presenting over video, was then cut off after continuing to say that police officers kill and injure people.
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