Thursday, July 19, 2012
Federal Cuts Hurt Local Police
Thunder Bay Police are
upset the Federal Government has decided to end it's five year Police Officer
Recruitment program. The local force is losing just over $140,000 a year that
was used to hire two beat cops. Chief J.P. Levesque says when the funding gets
cut in March next year he'll put it into the 2013 budget. Levesque says Police
Forces across Canada have lobbied the Federal Government to keep this program
going but to no avail.