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Around 30 years ago, a new cadet on the Durham Region police force got an idea. He would organize a basketball game and slam dunk contest for high school kids. They would be divided up into two teams – east and west. Each school would send its top players. The winners would get to go to see the Chicago Bulls game. Continue Reading →
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Charges of racism and police violence have renewed calls in Canada for frontline officers to wear body cameras. The debate is taking place across the country. From the RCMP to Toronto’s police, Indigenous groups and Black Lives Matters are calling for officers to wear video recording devices on their chests. The longtime debate over the need to wear body cameras is coming to Cobourg. As part of its technology and innovation strategy, the Police Services Board wants your opinion. Continue Reading →
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If you live in Northumberland County, surely there has been a time when you were standing in the sunshine and looked north only to see the dark clouds of a storm. And, you may wonder, it is going to come here or is it just going to pass by. The recent headlines coming out of Peterborough related to the opioid crisis facing that community are shocking. In a single weekend in early June, 13 people overdosed and two died within a 72-hour period. Deputy Chief Timothy Farquharson said in an interview with CBC, he hasn’t seen anything like it in his 33 years in policing. Continue Reading →
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The number of deaths due to fentanyl has quadrupled, while the number of calls to police has doubled in the past year, Chief Kai Liu said during an interview on Consider This Live. These are just calls where the police respond, he added. There are also those cases where people call an ambulance and those are not recorded in the police statistics, he explained. The number of calls up until July was 25 compared to 13 fentanyl calls for all of 2017. The number of deaths in 2017 was one. By July, it was four. Continue Reading →
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Cobourg Police Chief Kai Lui reviews the 2015 annual report, discussing some of the major initiatives and “solution-based” policing used locally on Consider This Live as part of the Drive Time on Northumberland 89.7 FM. Continue Reading →
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Cobourg Deputy Chief Paul Vandergraaf provides details about the new three-year business plan for the police force, outlining its pillars and supports to myself and Dave Glover. Continue Reading →
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By Robert Washburn
The Ontario Provincial Police – the Wal-Mart of law enforcement – are rolling back its prices starting in January. The OPP came up with a new funding model, which it introduced last week at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario annual meeting in London. (more…) Continue Reading →
By Robert Washburn
It was with deep sadness the news of the death of former Cobourg Police Chief Dan McDougall arrived this past week. It would be wrong to say I knew him well because I didn’t. But, he and I had lots of contact when I was a reporter at the Cobourg Daily Star. For the all the years I worked as a reporter, the police beat was mine. So, we regularly crossed paths. Continue Reading →