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Trail and Greater District
2025-01-07 07:53 PST
On Saturday, January 4, 2025, at 10:54 p.m. a frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officer was conducting a patrol in a marked vehicle when he spotted a 42-year-old Montrose man who had failed to use his turn signal on his vehicle when merging onto Victoria Avenue, in downtown Trail, BC. The officer detained the man and his vehicle roadside.
The officer discovered that the man was licenced and his vehicle insured; however, his vehicle had the following defects:
The officer issued a Notice and Order and had the vehicle removed from the roadway until the deficiencies could be repaired.
If we had quotas, this officer would be well on his way to satisfying that for the year, says Sgt. Wicentowich
If we had quotas, this officer would be well on his way to satisfying that for the year,
Overall, when compared to the past 5 years, this is the lowest number of calls for service that the Trail and Greater District RCMP has seen by approximately 300 to 1000 calls. We believe that the creation of the new 25 bed shelter and assistance from our mental health nurse has contributed to the drop in the amount of service, as the calls that the police would typically receive did not happen and/or were diverted to the health care system or supporting agency. We believe that policing will involve more outside agencies and partnership to help address crime and justice, and associated issues.
We believe that sexual assault reporting is up due to the Trail RCMP working with local partners to increase the ease and ability of victims to report sex related crimes to the police. We still have a lot of work to do but we hope all survivors can come forward to the police to tell their story.
One statistic that is not included in the statistics but will appear in 2025, is the Fail to Appear statistic. Trail RCMP had 115 incidents where someone failed to appear in court and a process, like a warrant for their arrest, was implemented. Trail RCMP, like other policing jurisdictions, are routinely arresting and managing clients who fail to appear for their court matters and their trials. This has proved quite a burden for the police and may contribute to the perception of a revolving door justice system. Release and bail hearings are now regularly conducted from within policing cell blocks and place an operation and administrative pressure on the police to facilitate sometimes multiple court hearings a week. Unfortunately, this can remove officers from the road and their main duties. Most people are released back into the general public even though some have missed multiple court date appearances, or committed new offences. Trail RCMP understands that there is presumption of innocence, and why this occurs, but provide a new challenged in managing valuable police time and resources.
Fail to Appear
revolving door
We anticipate this task continuing through 2025, says Sgt. Wicentowich.
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