Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 958rent Apex realty 7368 Winnipeg free press local Section Brian Cole 6977232 b1 Gord Sinclair Absentee absence of heart the woman on the phone wanted me to find something for it want for it was for her my Sisters husband committed suicide on new years she it was his he was her sister found him sprawled on their apartment floor at she cradled his head in her arms and rocked As if tears and tenderness would bring him later she Learned her husband had overdosed on Over the his wife sister was trying to explain the he had a hard life and he kept it inside there was a suicide it nobody really a half to his two thirds to the numbers didst add but then neither did the the note ended take care of the love you both the woman on the phone got to Why she her sister didst want to go Back and live in the she had paid the for but there were still two months remaining on the lease and she wanted management to release her from the Legal we approached them yesterday and they said they were but no the sister is there any Way you could talk to them i asked her for the name of the Edgewood estates is a 473suite Complex off Henderson Highway that leased locally but managed out of the woman who took my Call said her name was i didst know he committed Marion theres a Rumor going around that it was an she but what else did you want to know i wanted to know if she would Call Vancouver explain that this was a suicide and ask them to Marion i was just talking to them this morning and i dont feel like making a Long distance Call when i know what the answer would they told me in Vancouver that since the couple said they were leaving at the end of the lease a lease is a would it make a i if Vancouver knew it had been a suicide i doubt they might ask you what proof you have that it was a i asked Marion for the name of the Absentee the woman who answered at Shafran investments of Vancouver identified herself As whats it in regard to Ingrid said when i asked for the i told her and she put me on you can give our Winnipeg office a Ingrid said when she there the Best ones to talk i explained it was Winnipeg that told me it was Vancouver in just doing the Ingrid what can i Tell you i suggested she make it Clear to her Boss that this was a then i gave her my name and phone Are you writing this Down i in Ingrid in Twenty three Hundred Kilometres the phone went compassion you wont find it at Shafran investments of not when it costs a police overhaul weighed by Brad Oswald staff reporter better use of police re not More manpower and is the key to shut Ting Down biker the chair Man of the cites Parks and culture committee Amaro Silva Daniel Mclntyre said a proposed restructuring of the police department May pro vide some Relief to police who com Plain tight budgets and under staff ing have left the department unable to Deal with problems such As War ring motorcycle Silva says City needs More on fewer at desks police sources recently told the free press that their inability to halt a biker has seen seven people shot in the past two years is a result of a manpower shortage brought on by the cites Cash the sources said police were Able to curb Bike related violence Dur ing the 1970s and mid1980s by As signing Large numbers of vice Divi Sion staff to the Only two members of the vice squad Are currently assigned to the biker the sources the department has got essentially the same number of officers today As it did 10 years Silva said either the level of violence has escalated or id like to know what the police Are do ing with their Are we below recommended staff complement we but that an ongoing situation that weve suffered from in the past and that were currently suffering i dont see police numbers As having drastically changed Over the Silva said the Parks and culture committee will hold a special meeting 17 to discuss possible changes in the Way the police department he said the thrust of the proposal is a More centralized department that would eliminate some Levels in the supervisory Structure and shift some clerical such As taking Accident reports and traffic ticket from police personnel to civilian were looking at a streamlining Phil free press hot wheels flames engulf the tires and smoke Billows from the Hood As Ham Avenue yesterday afternoon there was no one in the firefighters try to douse a blazing 1975 Oldsmobile in the car at the the fire department estimates damage at Eaton place outdoor parking lot at Hargrave Street and no other vehicles were reported damaged Brandon mayor cries foul Over lera hearing costs by Larry Kusch staff reporter Brandon mayor Rick Protsik has a Bill with Justice minister Rose Mary Vodrey name on Boro Tsik says its unfair that the cites residents should be stuck with up to in Legal costs because of a Law enforcement review Agency lera hearing into the conduct of a Brandon police since lera was set up by the the provincial govern ment should Bear its he i personally plan on meeting with the minister of Justice and present ing the Bill to Boro Tsik said in an the Brandon mayor says Hes under no delusion that his attempt to have the province pick up the cites Legal Tab will get too but a statement needs to be made about How unfair the lera hearing process is for smaller my he lera was established in 1985 to hear Public complaints about the conduct of officers in municipal police there is a separate com plaint process for the the Agency most famous Case was the hearing into the conduct of Winnipeg police officer Robert who shot native Leader Harper in lera found that Cross used excessive Force in the shooting of and demoted in perhaps the most involved lera Case since Brandon resident Jason Daniels has filed a complaint that a Brandon police offi cer used excessive Force when he shot him in the neck after police were called to the scene of a domes tic dispute in july the incident occurred in a dark ened stairwell outside Daniels girl friends the officer said he fired his service revolver when Daniels lunged at him with a the Canadian press Daniels was seriously but eventually recovered from the in october he pleaded guilty to possessing weapons dangerous to the Public peace and received a sus Pended in lera hearings that concluded last a provincial court judge heard the testimony of a score of witnesses Over 14 the Tran script of the hearing filled 14 vol its an incredibly huge said Brandon City solicitor and act ing City manager Robyn he said the City had to hire lawyers to represent the police officer who can not be named at this time and the cites police Singleton estimates that by the time the Case is Over the parties Are now preparing written arguments for the judge the City will have spent As much As in be facts about lera the Manitoba Law enforcement review Agency was created in the Agency handles complaints against police officers in Anne and four Rural police officers come under the authority of All but 100 of them Are members of the Winnipeg police complaints against the Royal Canadian mounted police Are handled under Federal Gal and other related Boro Tsik Doest believe that and he wonders How smaller towns and municipalities would Cope with such a villages fear having to defend officers by Larry Kusch staff reporter Small municipalities with their own police forces say bearing the full Cost of defending an officer at a lengthy lera hearing is an unfair the City of Brandon estimates its Legal Bill for the defence of one of its officers before the Law enforcement review Agency could reach that a lot of Money for a Community with a Small tax and Small towns and Rural municipalities that have their own police forces shudder at the thought of facing a similar situation some we can do a lot of things for said Morden town manager Abe a Bill like that would just throw our budget out of he Rivers mayor Roy Stevenson said there has to be a better Way of handling such its almost like a he said of the lengthy Brandon id like to see if we could change the lera investigates complaints of misconduct on the part of police officers in the provinces 11 municipal police the departments Range in size from one or two officers in some Small towns and Rural municipalities to in so none of the Small municipalities has faced hearings with Legal costs anywhere near Brandon the Village of Anne had a hearing four years ago that left it with a Bill of More than we had no compensation from the province and we had no say in the procedure said administrator the officer in question was cleared of any he Levesque said his Council would support any change that would Speed up the hearing process and make it More Ian a lera said there is nothing in the Law enforcement review act that forces municipalities to pay Legal expenses for their police officers or police Brandon and Winnipeg police officers have provisions in their collective agreements that Force the cities to defend and officials in smaller municipalities say they would feel obliged to support their officers if a complaint were launched against one of of the command Structure of the department with an Eye toward getting More officers actually out on the he Silva said the City will also explore police Public partnerships with Volunteer groups to assist in Community fifteen or 20 years budgets we rent As tight As they Are and you could afford to have strictly a police he we have to Start looking at the Issue of Community Volunteer policing and that kind of weve got to Start doing things different Bishop praises Sung female a first to head College by Kevin Duke free press correspondent a Manitoba doctor has become the first woman and the first paediatrician to be chosen As president of the Royal College of physicians and surgeons of Agnes Bishop will be moving to Ottawa later this year to take Over the prestigious position in Bishop was reluctant to blow her own Horn when contacted for an let someone else talk about she but her associates were More than willing to Praise her i keep Well she has done for said Joan executive director of the childrens Hospital research Shes been an outstanding advocate for child Jim assistant to the president of the health sciences said Bishop is first class All the Bishop was elected last september to a two year term As president of the Royal Bishop is also chairwoman of the department of paediatrics at the University of Manitoba and holds the position of physician chief of the childrens last she was appointed head of paediatrics at Boniface general i need an eight Day she said from her office at the a half Day a week at my clinical practice is All i have time she Bishops term As president will give her the Chance to further develop her Canad wide she is a very compassionate very said Ken registrar of the College of physicians and surgeons of Bishop said Shes already thinking about her role As president of the Royal 1 want to make sure our programs Are in line with the needs of patient she ;