Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba The province Winnipeg free press january Page 2 Julian provincial editor Brandon police want emergency response team Force urges City to proposed 10member unit Lloyd Collister left gets Doug Palson into bulletproof Brandon police want own crisis by Randy Turner Winnipeg free peas Brandon the police Force Here wants to establish its own emergency response unit to handle crisis situations instead of relying on a Winnipeg based the Brandon police Force has applied for funding from City Council for the proposed 10member unit designed to respond to incidents such As hostage takings or armed and barricaded its something we think we Deputy chief Keith Buizer Brandon is big enough that we need people trained to handle such this is our City and we have a mandate to look after Brandon currently has an agree ment in which a Winnipeg based ramp response team can be called in to handle certain emergencies while local officers contain the Situa the Winnipeg unit is either flown or driven to a distance of about 200 Brandon police chief Brian Scott said the time involved in transport ing the Winnipeg unit does not necessarily create a major the time Factor could be a critical Scott but in the Early stage of these things its a standoff a negotiation be on a gunman fired four shots from a Brandon Home and police evacuated and blocked off the immediate the who did not take any gave victim support by Paul Wiecek the Brandon police department has set up a victim support unit that police chief Brian Scott says is Long the two person which is aimed at helping victims of crime get Back on their began operating its been Well received theres a definite need for it and if i had my Way wed have had one a lot Scott the old police methods just dont work any youve got to get out to the Community these Scott said the made up of one full time Constable and a full time has already had its first official Case 80yearold woman who was assaulted by her 60yearold she was quite traumatized and it took a lot of counselling but we finally got her into a shelter for battered he Between Scott the members of the unit go through the files looking for victims who might need we try to show them the where the appropriate government offices what support programs Long chief says Are available that sort of he Brandon is the second Manitoba City to set up a victim services the Winnipeg police department has had a victim services unit since 1981 and Scott said the Brandon pro Gram will be modelled on it our people will be going to Winnipeg 15 to take a look at How theirs Scott said the department has approached the province for funding for the Treyve expressed an but so far theres been no formal he said any funding would come out of the victims assistance a provincial fund made up of Money raised by a 12percent surcharge on fines for provincial offences and by a Flat fee imposed on those convicted but not Darlene executive director of the Manitoba chapter of Vic Tims of said the fund was created to provide Money to organizations helping victims of that what its there for and they Brandon have any trouble getting the she adding her organization will apply for funding later this the ramp is also expected to approach the province in the next couple of months for funding for its proposed new victim services a spokesman Jean who is drafting a said the program would be set up in major centres like Portage la the flin flon and Caron emphasized that the extent of the program will depend on whether the province agrees to fund theres still a lot of uncertainty and its not Clear what wed do if they turn us he himself up after about two the Winnipeg unit was not called to the Buizer noted that such incidents underline the need for a local unit trained to handle crisis this it worked out there were no but not every incident is like he one such situation like that not handled properly could be de the 10 members for the proposed response unit would be selected from the current 66member Buizer the total Cost of the unit will not be set until City Council reviews the police department budget later this if the Brandon unit could receive initial training from specialists in the Federal Bureau of which pro Vides such instruction to foreign to Scott unit disbanded the Brandon Force had a special tactical response unit in but it was disbanded in 1987 when the department was in at the the chief Ken Elliot and another senior David were under suspension after the Brandon police association went Public with allegations of intimidation of officers and Lisman the association also charged that under Elliott the Force was understaffed and poorly the Force was without a policy manual for the 10 months proceeding Elliott suspension and lacked a drug the association both Elliot and Hamilton later receiving payments of 000 and from the Scott was named chief last Jan becoming the fourth person to Lead the Brandon Force since octo Ber Scott said the emergency response team proposal along with a num Ber of other department including foot patrols and a victims assistance program is part of a three year rebuilding the department also established a drug squad last at the end of that three year we dont want to take a Back seat to any other Force in Scott health rules on Honor system by Maureen Houston Winnipeg free press Killarney an acute Short age of Public health inspectors in Western Canada Means operators of food outlets and garbage dumps will continue to function on the Honor system in seven municipalities and numerous communities surrounding this southwestern the Killarney Region has been without a Public health and Environ ment Field worker since August one of three Manitoba vacancies that have also affected flin flon and the pay is better outside the said Murray Secretary treasurer for Killarney and the Rural municipality of Turtle its not even so much because were a Rural Ken chief of the pro Vinces inspection said there Are More than 70 vacancies across Canada due to retirements and transfers to other the former Killarney inspector now works for a Public health unit in while the former flin flon worker took a Federal govern ment position out of Rankin graduates from two training schools in Vancouver and Toronto will not come close to filling the immediate Lotus land people in Lotus land Vancouver dont really want to come across the Hawkins but what tends to happen More often is that people dont although an inspector from Virden travels to Killarney once a he says routine work covering every thing from restaurants to private sewage disposal must its certainly said Ron who also oversees seven municipalities near i just do the Calls because that All time Schur said he cant understand Why workers seek positions in other adding he has no problem with the which ranges from to per in com the Federal government pays Between and Hawkins said Manitoba pay scale is competitive in Western can but he admitted Only the Marl times and a few locations in North Western Ontario pay special hiring incentives Are not he saying the department is tied to its salary the Only he is to wait for a response to advertisements on College bulletin boards and press the training centres to increase enrol were really vocal that there is an extreme problem in finding Field Rifle Accident kills teenage boy a fort Alexander Indian Reserve boy was killed sunday when a calibre Rifle went off an ramp spokesman said Clayton Earl and two friends were playing with the weapon in a House on the Reserve about sunday when it went the shot in the died the spokesman deaths classified death Carlos husband of Maria Adeline Marion of Hus band of at Vina Joseph Adelard widow of Arthur Bonnie Mabel Isabella widow of Jim Lewis George Hus band of Eva Margaret Frederick Kathleen of widow of Grant Gar Alice widow of cart William Nancy of win Emit of Winni husband of Evelyn Heckerl Florence of Swan widow of 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