PC Party calls for provincial police force
Amidst the clamour for better policing in rural areas, the Progressive Conservative Party is calling for a provincial police force.
Party President Grant Schmidt said he’d be talking with rural directors at the SARM convention this week about the idea of combining existing government safety officers to help free up RCMP.
“We’re planning to consolidate agencies such as conservation officers, highway traffic officers, sheriff security and prison transfer services,” Schmidt told paNOW. “[This provincial police force] would have as part of its jurisdiction rural Saskatchewan, small towns and villages and to concentrate more on crime prevention than the RCMP has time for.”
Schmidt said the party had observed a public safety problem in some cities and some rural areas and solving these issues was an important role of government. He said RCMP were too understaffed and busy with major crimes.