Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 20, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A14 local Winnipeg free september 2000 there partners in safety Community policing policy pays off in Core by Leah Janzen when it was first proposed More than four years the idea of Community polic ing was criticized As being too soft on but it looks like the grassroots approach is paying Over the last Many of the crimes affecting Winnipeg Cor Earea neighbourhoods such As prostitution and breaking declined in Many residents credit the increased visibility of beat cops and their commitment to Community needs for the things Are said an Ellice Avenue business who declined to give her the prostitutes and drug dealers Are still but with the Community we know Well have a quicker response when we Call for help and their presence has made the people and the area feel but Brian downtown Community support supervisor for the said its the combination of Street level cops and committed Community members and business owners that making the i look at the cops As the Quarter he we can help people get organized and be there to enforce the but we rely on Community members and groups to act As our eyes and in the last four Cencora and his team have travelled the City trying to build Bridges with communities with longstanding histories of mistrust and fear of the Wayne Glowacki Winnipeg free press Shannon of the Spence neighbourhood says crime has dropped since residents slowly but surely the plan has worked and now most intercity neighbourhoods have an organized Community association that meets regularly with police from the area to look at Cre Active ways to Deal with Street level most Community associations have been established in the West Central area of downtown and the Spence Street Shannon Community improvement coordinator with the Spence neighbourhood said since residents in her area have Orga crime rates have we go out on evening patrols at least three nights a she we identify prostitutes and drug houses and report them to the we noticed an Impact almost immediate in the downtown police helped residents set up a sweeping pager sys tem that allows neighbourhood Busi Nesses and residents to Call a Central dispatcher with warnings of sushi Cious looking missing kids and crimes in Cencora said the involvement of Community members in helping police identify problems helps cops Deal faster with the issues that Are most pressing to area we can provide them with the forum to he but after that they come away with an organized voice which they didst have that gives them the ability to Tell us whats happening in their area and we cart share ideas about How to fix conference to focus on police officer conduct by Leah Janzen representatives from Law enforce ment review agencies across the country will meet in Winnipeg this week to look at More effective ways to Deal with police corruption and Don National president of the Canadian association for civil Over sight of Law said More than 90 delegates including representatives from the Winnipeg police ser vice will attend the National which begins at the Delta downtown hotel speakers from around the world and close to Home including the police ombudsman from Northern Ireland and Winnipeg free press columnist Gordon Sinclair will address the delegates on such matters As the increase in civil Law suits being launched against police offi cers and How the Media affects there Are Many things that affect police officers said agencies like lera Are at the Hind end of controlling police this con Ference is aimed at looking at ways to be More Morrison said workshop sessions will provide information on ethics and How advances in technology have changed the Way police do their delegates will also consider the Issue of High Speed police chases and the controversy around when or if they should be George president of Manito Bas said a Large contingent of police officers from around the province will take part in the were hoping to learn a lot and enhance Peoples knowledge of what we he Winnipeg police chief Jack Swatski is expected to speak at the conference As Well As Manitoba Justice minister Gord govt int keeping Promise on hallway Medicine tories on the eve of the provincial election Manitoba tories Are accusing the nip of failing to come clean on a key Promise the elimination of Hall Way but a representative of the Winnipeg regional health authority says the tories Are being a bit selective with were now a year Down the Road and hallway Medicine according to these lat est statistics is now double what it was a year said conservative health critic Myrna Driedger at a Media scrum Driedger pulled out statistics from the Warha showing the number of patients stuck in Winnipeg Hospital hallways Rose for the week of 28 to 3 Over the same period last from four patients to for the week of the num Ber of patients in hallways Rose from four last to nine this while the statistics show patients Are still ending up in Hospital Jan Vic president and chief nursing officer at the says claiming that the situation is twice As bad As last year is a what there saying is True about the but its not the trend for the said she said numbers of patients in Hall ways were higher on five weeks out of the the rest of the numbers were the same or by the end of the the government itself was getting into the numbers sending out statistics showing on the number of patients in Winnipeg Hospital hallways decreased from an average of 15 a Day Between january and August 1999 to a Day Between january and August Oakville area Man charged following stabbing an Oakville area Man faces charges of aggravated assault after a 44yearold Man was stabbed in the Back in his at Portage la Prairie ramp were called to a Home in when they got there they found Lind say Mcleod suffering a Stab wound to his Archie was arrested and charged in connection to the incident and will appear in Portage la Prairie court on Mcleod was treated and released from police say alcohol does not appear to be a Factor in the ramp seized a homemade a homemade a Threefoot sword and a Butcher knife from the branding allegation goes to jury today by Mike Mclntyre a Man facing a slew of criminal charges including attacking his room mate with a re hot piece of Metal May learn his Fate today As a jury begins deliberations after a we Klong Russell Gerald has pleaded not guilty to 10 including aggravated unlawful con trafficking in uttering forged break and pos session of stolen fraud and during closing arguments defence lawyer Darren Sawchuk urged jurors to discount the testimony of Sev eral Young men who told various tales of being attacked by aitkenhead or forced into crimes by i would suggest that witness after witness who took the stand didst strike you As being straightforward or Forth time after we heard wit Nesses admit they had and admit they had taken opportunities to save their own he the first witness to testify last Jason told jurors that aitkenhead branded the word rat on his Arm because he had Given a statement to police which implicated one of Aitken Heads friends in a car he claimed he was bound in a chair with duct blindfolded and then branded with a piece of Metal which had been heated with a blow other allegations by witnesses include being forced by aitkenhead to Burn a joining him on and buying cocaine from Crown attorney Brian Bell said the Young victims All looked up to Aitken who was a few years older and acted As a Mentor of they All had something in they were younger than he and having been kicked out of their own the accused gave them a place to he Bell said some of the men still consider aitkenhead a he urged jurors to take their evidence at face value and find the accused guilty of All but Sawchuk cautioned them about finding an innocent Man guilty and mentioned several High profile Canadian cases of wrongful at the end of the the evidence Falls far Short of the Standard of proof required in a criminal 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