Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local Brian Cole 6977292 Emai my Ca a11 Gordon Sinclair a great officer leaves the beat had a goodbye lunch last weekend with John Campbell and a group of other for 20 years Campbell has been the conscience of the Winnipeg but Hes leaving the service the Way he As a Constable patrolling main of begs the obvious John Campbell always wanted to be a but he took an unconventional he went to University then he worked As the provincial conservative Leader Sidney Spivak executive at age he finally joined the department in it was with the Hope of helping he quickly discovered the police department needed to help itself before it would help and Campbell spent his career he started by persuading the City to hire a consultant who would look at the departments operational they recommended a whole raft of Campbell most of which the police neglected to the Campbell will Tell came from the big Brick Blue the old boys club at the Public safety building that has controlled promotions and protected the status in the late Campbell ran smack into the big Brick Blue Wall As president of the Winnipeg police its the he you cant beat it and i want going to join he accomplished More As a Constable than he Ever could As association he pushed for the departments first Field training he founded neighbourhood watch and Block parents and he opened the crime stoppers in dipping Back into politics As the tory candidate in he even authored the party Justice after six years in the Filmon administration has Only paid lip service to the Campbell it was at the legislative where one of his most important contributions was it was last soon after two local murders had sensitized politicians to the problem of Campbell and his Jeff drove their Cruiser up to the Legislatures front Steps As the Justice minister Jim Mccrae got into the Back the Street cops had copies of various bail and restraining orders to show the then Campbell punched the mens identities into his police Cruiser the names but not the court ordered Mccrae was police have court orders on their computers Campbell and his psychiatrist Linda depart tomorrow for where Shell set up Hes leaving with two More saving two would be Bridge with a sense of peace about the police department now that Dale Henry is in before he he wants to say something about the i would urge All my friends and associates to support the Man who the Best thing that happened to the Winnipeg police department in my after he left our lunch that someone at the table finally asked the obvious How can someone like that still be a Constable another Man at the who also connected with the criminal Justice spoke until he would be considered too what a sad epitaph for such a great hardly a set Lime Weno Euphis free press Oak Park High school teacher Al Bush receives a wiping Down yesterday from Lorelle the school was holding festivities to Mark the end of the school year As students prepared for their summer medicare no sacred cow my private sector health role doctor says legislature reporter woman robbed As men ambush her car police reporter Winnipeg police say a Driver was punched and robbed of her purse Early yesterday in the third such attack in recent crime Ron Dawson said the 26yearold woman was travelling on Manitoba Avenue near Mcphil lips Street when two men abruptly walked in front of her she didst want to hit them so she Dawson Dawson said two other the woman had not previously seen suddenly emerged and pulled open the Driver and passenger the other two remained in front of the so she drive Dawson said the Man on the Drivers Side of the car reached in and punched the woman four times in the face while the Man on the other Side reached across the front seat and grabbed her Dawson said the woman suffered bruises to her face in the but was not seriously but he said police Are alarmed by what might have happened in the incident and at least two others like it on Winnipeg streets during the past several Dawson said the two previous cases also involved he said police haunt publicized those cases because they Felt they were isolated incidents and feared Media coverage might prompt but Dawson said yesterdays Inci Dent left police with no Choice but to reveal the incidents and warn peo ple to lock their doors when there especially at night and while commuting in the cites tougher there Hast been a rash of these things and theres no cause for pan but i think its time people Start Locking their car he despite the similarity of the three incidents and the close time Proximo Dawson said police do not think they Are he noted they occurred in differ ent neighbourhoods and involved at tackers with different Brandon general Hospi tals top doctor says Hospital budget cuts have made two tiered health care inevitable in Man William Brandon chief of medical called yester Day on politicians to Stop treating medicare As a sacred cow and Start working cooperatively with the Pri vate As Long As we fight against a two tier All we will do is deny those who want to pay Tor Myers said in an interview from and the sooner we come to grips with that the building on comments he made to the hospitals annual general meet ing Myers said its impossible for hospitals to maintain the same level of service when budgets Are being the politicians like us to believe that we can deliver the same level of care for less but people Arent that he fill the void As a publicly funded system con a privately funded system will expand to fill the Myers predictions left Liberal Leader Paul Edwards demanding health minister Jim Mccrae come to the Rescue of this cannot go Edwards Mccrae said the province continues to support the principles of the Canada health the foundation of the country medicare we will have the Best healthcare system in Canada that we can of Mccrae i dont accept that private health care is but Mccrae refused Edwards de Mand that a letter be sent to Myers informing him of the provinces position on i dont agree with stifling him and gagging him so that he cant Mccrae budget cuts As part of the provinces health re millions of dollars have Al ready been Cut from Hospital Bud leading to hundreds of Manitoba health organizations says Winnipeg and bran Don hospitals Are facing million in budget cuts that will affect hundreds of workers Over the next two the Manitoba medicare Alert coalition agreed the province is on the Road Toa two tier that what we have been saying for four or five Tim Sale of the coalition theres no question that Myers is Sale said provincial health Reform such As allowing the Dein Suring of certain services to protect doctors shows what the future holds for Sale said he hoped a change in provincial policy would no longer make Myers prediction Myers said no one is to blame for the emergence of a two tier and it int a bad politicians like to show that its a creeping but its not Myers said budget cuts Haven compromised but they have meant the Public system cant pro vide the same number of Miliar Park statue Tice for three mom police reporter boy with Boot missing from Park the boy with the Boot is on the police say the to the City in stolen from its customary position outside the English gardens in Assiniboine Park sometime in police spokesman Eric Turner said the theft was not reported until this week because of a he said two foremen retired last fall and Park workers this year had assumed the statue was either being refurbished or had been Park officials finally realized their mistake this week and reported the theft to police on Turner the report has left police wondering who would steal the crime Ron Dawson said the Bronze statue would have Little monetary value on the Black Market and it would be next to impossible to display the metre High statue in a Home or somebody would notice fairly Quick and would report i would Dawson in not sure what prompts people to do silly things like it sounds like its a the statue of a Young boy gravely watching a Stream of water pouring from the toe of one of his boots stood in front of City Hall As part of a Fountain until 19s3 when it was restored and placed at the Entrance to the English its not the first time the hapless statue has been the victim of in the statue was stolen both times it was found a Little worse for Wear but basically City historians say the statue is believed to be one of 10 created in an italian foundry and donated to cities throughout North Winnipeg got its statue in 1897 when it was donated by the Young Peoples Christian endeavour society to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victorias Evans concentrates on getting Job Back officer gets suspended sentence for lying to official Lavy courts Law courts reporter Daryl Lee Evans produced 74 letters of support including one from a Man he and left court with a oneyear suspended sentence for lying to a magistrate while obtaining a search Evans used the warrant in ques Tion to arrest newsstand manager Kenneth but Halbert who was fined for purchasing stolen cigarettes wrote a letter urging the judge to treat Evans i dont think he should lose his Halbert said in an interview after i cannot see this mans career go ing Down the it was my judg 1 made a bad judgment Call and i regret Evanss conviction was the Only one to emerge from the 11week trial of four Winnipeg constables in connection with an alleged break largely vindicated by the judicial Evans now wants Back the Job from which he was sus Pended without pay after his arrest in september Witch Hunt that priority a beaming Evans said after he left the court room but Evans also said he wants to Clear his name in not so the conviction will be he Evans agreed that he Felt he was the victim of a Witch Hunt in the police it was selected prosecution and biased he Jack Winnipeg police association said he wants to see Evans Back on the Job As soon As Haas Eek said the association also wants Evans to be reimbursed both the salary and benefits Hes lost since being the most lenient penalty the court could have imposed on him was the penalty Haas Eek that should be an indication now the court feels about in passing Justice Wallace Darichuk of court of Queens Bench said Evans had been adequately punished by being sus Pended without pay since his and by being jailed for five Days until he was granted Wendell press with wife says he will Appeal his ;