Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 2, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Automotive showcase in our classified Section d7d11 50 fires burning Northern Manitoba town of Edge do Forest fire b3 56 pages vol 123 no 182 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press t get Post 754 in Ontario weekly Homo delivery 25 wkly 05 20 Post in Winnipeg s3 30 wkly 09 t 21 Post outside cily june police reorganize to fight grownup Street gangs police reporter fifteen police officers have been pulled from their assignments this week to form a new Street gang unit that senior City officers Promise will target and arrest local gang members As never senior officers say the new unit being assembled this week is an acknowledgement of the seriousness of the local gang problem and the changing face of the youth gangs Are a Misnomer there Street crime Don Mclean said there Are still some youths in but there mostly adults there organized crime not like the maybe but they Are organized Mclean said while the local gang problem May have started As a pre dominantly youth original gang members have aged and Are now adults and the gangs Are attracting a wider Cross Section of Deputy chief Terry Mcgregor said the new Street gang unit will answer to the officer in charge of youth division and have four youth division members in but it will in clude officers from other areas of the City and Mcgregor said eight of the offi cers will come from the depart ments property crimes two from the North end and one from the youth gang formed just Over a year has now been Dis that announced with some fanfare in april 1994 As the depart ments response to the youth crime Marc Winnipeg free press Tortell him Hes funny Foury Earold Brendan Kafka reacts to a performance by National childrens festival at the Poltroni is Tortell known As Tortell the bar founder of clowns without which toured in Bosnia yesterday at the 13th annual Winnipeg inter last the childrens festival runs through climbing the Merit ladder sergeants get police inspector rank police reporter Hart wont need a motorcycle anew police promotions touted As based More on Merit and less on has done what previous systems have failed to put a woman in a senior Shelley a Middle rank supervisor in the traffic vaulted Over about 40 other Many with a higher rank become the first female senior officer in the history of the Winnipeg police service Hart was one of five City and the Only to be promoted to inspector by police chief Dale the other officers promoted Are staff Jack a uniform supervisor downtown staff Roy supervisor of the downtown detective unit staff Al a supervisor in personnel and Art a uniform officer currently helping implement Community based the five officers will fill positions made vacant by a recent round of retirements and Stannard and Hart Are the first officers Ever promoted to the rank of inspector without first being staff a feat made possible by a new promotions system which opened up the inspector Competition to sergeants for the first Henry said the new promotions system was developed in cooperation with the police Union to make promotions based More on Merit and address concerns the previous system was based on an old boys Henry said he simply acted on the recommendations of an assessment committee in making the promotions he reacted forcefully when told some officers at the Public safety building were already saying Harts promotion was a political appointment to appease henrys masters at City she did it on her Henry with no help from and anybody who says different is definitely badly even before yesterdays Hart had already reached higher rank than any previous female she accomplished that in 1991 when she became the first sergeant Hart is also the Confounder of Manitoba women in Law an organization of female police officers which had 56 members last Hart was unavailable for comment in an interview with a free press reporter in Hart told the Story of How she was turned Down by the departments dive team in the 1980s even though she was an olympic calibre there might be some required tasks some Day she they Hart said she never did find out what those tasks sex offender panel weighing first Case by Gordon Sinclair free press columnist Canadas first committee empowered to recommend Public disclosure of the whereabouts of dangerous sexual offend ers reviewed its first Case yesterday without reaching a i Donowa Ritto give you any information about the said Jennifer chairwoman of Manitoba Community notification the eight member panel includes representatives from police and Federal and provincial corrections the provincial Justice de panel yet to pass court test b2 apartment and a forensic social it plans to meet one Day a but we really dont know How Busy were going to Cooper it was set up by the Filmon government in reaction to the murder of 13yearold Sarah Kelly in the Pas and the arrest of Robert a longtime paedophile who killed the process begins with police notifying the committee and present ing written documentation about the the committee sifts through the documents and makes a recommendation to police without hearing from the offender in the panel has various for it can recommend a geographically limited Alert that could provide information Only to people entrusted with potential such As school or daycare surveillance of the full which would in clude releasing a photograph in the most extreme the offenders no police then have a Choice of accepting or rejecting the panels rec there was a Media report last week that Winnipeg City police failed to notify the committee about the release of two sexual Ive never independently con firmed Cooper nor could she say whether the person being re viewed yesterday was one of the i dont because i dont know who the people part of the question is How far Back we Cooper referring to offenders who were in the Community before the committee was i dont know if were going to get a balloon the committee is going into uncharted Cooper a knowl we wont make too Many bad was supposed to be made up of four officers with the mandate to gather intelligence on youth gangs and feed that information to other districts or specially but the unit was frequently under manned and the officers assigned to it were also responsible for regular youth division prompting some officers to complain it was operating More for show than any criminal intelligence Mclean refused to admit any mis takes but said a review of the unit concluded the department needed to set up a More proactive unit which could conduct surveil Lance and stage projects targeting criminally Active gang id hate to second guess anybody Mclean said of the old a decision was made that a greater emphasis needed to be put on in Power play stalls jets Deal mucin tug of War Over Day today control of team by John Douglas business reporter talks to keep the jets in Winnipeg have turned into a Battle Over Day today control of the National hockey league fran its a fight that has jets president Barry Shenkarow threatening to walk away and a new ownership group threatening to let everyone in Manitoba know whose fault it is if the Deal Falls a source everyone is hoping cooler Heads will prevail so a Deal can be people continue to work very hard to get this Shenkarow it is still moving but the proposal to keep the nil in Winnipeg and build a new Arena is no longer about How work Able the Manitoba entertainment Complex plan is or even the viability of hockey in this it has become a contest of Block construction everyone has said All along there would be a new organization that will own the team and a new Board will decide who the president Mec chairman John Loe Wen its got so Shenkarow the province was asked yesterday to step in As a Manitoban thin a group opposed to Public funding Ofa new will announce it is seeking a court in Junction to Block the construction of a new Arena North of the Forks be cause the project has not received proper environmental in the the Filmon government continues to come under without Goodwill Dies fire from the nip for refusing to hold Public tenders on a new the new ownership group has offered to buy 42 per cent of the held by Shenkarow and his three for million and leave them with a 22 per cent stake in the they have also offered Shenkarow a seat on the teams Board of the franchise governorship and a two year consultants fee to help a new person run the Day today but who together with his brother will be the teams largest investor at wants More control than while he is prepared to take direction from the teams Board of he wants to be the teams president and governor for at least two if he cant do he Doest want to do sources say Shenkarow told his partners yesterday that if he is seen As the obstacle to a Deal keeping the jets in he would leave his shares in the hockey club but refuse any leadership but that would give Mec the difficult Job of getting the nil Board of governors to agree to the Sale without Shenkarow help some thing nil commissioner Gary Belt Man has already said he would not Money is not the an Mec source what is at stake is its about whether Shenkarow will get million in his pro portion of the 22 per cent have a new facility built and if he gets to run the whole that what its quote of the Day dont you dare cry youre not to Juanita testifying at the manslaughter trial of parents charged in their sons quotes the Mother reprimanding her details on Page As the weather today sunny and hazy with afternoon i Cloudy i High Low tonight saturday mainly sunny High Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details on paged 2 inside diversions rubes and Ann in sports to ;