Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 10, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18bal income plus Foffi Sivilar Winnipeg free press local july John Dou features Jim cat email a3 police overtime audit or by Aldo Santon City Hall Oshaughnessy wants to get to of hefty Tab to t police departments Over time costs Are out of control and an audit should be launched to find out the chairman of the cites Protection committee Mike Oshaughnessy old kit Donan said part of the problem stems from police attending but added the overtime costs keep escalating every in not Happy with the situation and weve got to get to the Bottom of Oshaughnessy i dont know if there is anything untoward going on and in not Assum ing there but an audit there is a better Way to Utilee our Oshaughnessy said the police Over time Tab always amounts to of Lillions of dollars the police departments budget anticipated million for about half of that caused by officers tied up with testifying and other court the cites latest projections show the department will end the year Mil lion Over it was brought Down to that level Only by a Las minute commitment from chief David Cassels to reduce overtime costs by but marry Lazarenko said the deficit situation is politically this happens every said Lazarenko also a member of the Protection the police submit a budget that Treyve been dictated to deliver and it always contains Cost savings that the department knows Arent achievable but the senior politicians Hope will police department officials were not available for Lazarenko said there is no possibility the deficit situation will result in noting the City added million to the departments 1996 budget under similar the Public demands a High level of visibility from the police and there is a Cost for Lazarenko weve got no Choice but to two recent reviews by the cites finance department showed that with in six weeks of the police budget being it was already heading for an a second review six weeks later showed the depart in to passive firepower found in Homes meant for killing humans by Doug Narne Polios reporter bolide kept a group of Hells Angels Garig who were a Small arsenals of weapons mpg yesterday on and ammunition police say Al bikers has been the weapons were seized 6n june j seized from the closet of a City 24 when police on r and while investigators Are obtained a search warrant and alarmed at the firepower two an apartment at 124 an assault in a 1 silencers and various is assault i say the arterial dislike and by everyday biker paranoia than of an guns Are both fitted land the assault Nile bikers Are violent soit could be Are prone to doing All kinds of i even try to Matic and pm they were intending to do with these the ar4s is similarity Yak said staff sgt Bob Paquin m16 assault what Wedo Knowis that these thaw used by armies weapons Are not for Hunting purpose the Stengeri was use the Yare meant for killing Canadian and British lies the second time this year Best known police have recovered a Cache of american Street gangs Anai 7 Aue Gedly stockpiled by Bik movies last a Eizile consisted of Sev High rate of fire s eral Rusty rifles that were along with parts and a expended rocket recovered but the weapons on display of Ter Dayare ready for use and fully1 be Kevin Birkett displays seized Canadian armed safety building tuesday of a v Jet r just i a t v said tie Man is known to of a outlaw fired yesterday so ballistic tests could match them to crimes else v v y few met Mac is j a v the origin i of downplayed the signify weapons and the f f Rance of the weapons a 32yearold Man and the Nian and woman both k y 5 t career criminal jailed indefinitely by Allison Bray staff reporter Man has violent offences dating Back to 1966 a career criminal with 14 convictions for violent offences will be held in prison indefinitely after being declared a dangerous offender Justice Albert Clearwater of the court of Queens Bench made the declaration after finding that Rene Joseph is at High risk of com mitting future acts of the evidence is overwhelming the accused was one of the worst inmates in the Clearwater said while rendering his judgment on the application Gregoire had to be restrained by sheriffs officers during the proceed ing yesterday when he stood up in the prisoners Dock and told Clearwater Ive had Crown attorney Lorraine Prefontaine made the application in May after Gre Goire was convicted on of one count each of assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily he was found guilty of beating up the 15yearold son of a female acquaintance after the youth repeat edly asked Gregoire and his Mother to be quiet while the boy tried to according to evidence presented at the Gregoire punched the youth in the head and choked him and held a serrated knife up to his Throat leaving puncture Marks while the boy Lay in the conviction was just one of 14 of Gregoire convictions for violent offences dating Back to including a 1984 he also has 31 other criminal convictions dating Back to court also heard Gregoire was implicated but never charge three alleged Inci dents of violence at the including the attempted extortion of Money from a fellow inmates Clearwater said despite a psychiatric assessment that found Gregoire suffers from antisocial personality disorder and is a longtime alcoholic and drug there is Hope for him to be ments deficit had reached As part of the police deaf of fiends contribution to the deficit avoidance plan Council approved last the department stated its own deficit could be reduced to million by cutting overtime a May 9 report by finance director Keith Dowdall said the initial deficit would be caused because fewer officers would be retiring than Origi Nally and because of a Deci Sion not to fund several including the Street gang the second dated june states the departments budget for salary and benefits would be exceeded by profit jump raises rate hike questions by Paul Samyn legislature reporter a fourfold jump in profits at its net com is raising More questions about the Tele phone Utility plans for future rate according to an its application to the its division that delivers local Telephone service will record net income of million in up considerably from the million in Manitoba new democrats yesterday seized on the document to launch another attack on the Filmon govern ments privatization of the former Crow owned nip Leader Gary doer said its Clear its customers Are paying for higher profits and the Bot Tom line shows that seniors were right and that Filmon was wrong rates Are going up because of Privati doer called on Filmon to inter Vene on behalf of Manitoba Consumers before the its spokeswoman june Kirby said the rate increases have nothing to do with the profitability of its Kirby said the rate hikes that began in 1996 and will continue next year Are part of rate Rebal dancing designed to bring local phone charges More in line with what they local phone rates went up a month in 1996 and a month in 1997 and its wants a further a month increase in its documents Sug Gest a further a month increase could follow by the year Kirby accused the nip of taking a complicated rate application and twist ing it out of Kirby said the profit int the final num Ber for the Utility As the Money raised through local calling is used to offset expenses and fund capital projects in the other its in Kirby said its is reporting a net income of million for according to that profit equates to earnings per share of an increase of about 12 per cent on a pro forma basis Over the Manitoba society of seniors which has been a vocal opponent of believes the profit picture at its shows the real costs of the Utility Moss president Mary Pankiw said she is wondering what happened to the theory that Competition would bring Telephone rates the Consumers Are getting All the theory and the Tele phone company and All its investors Are getting All the no one from the Filmon government was available to comment open every Nile tit 9 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