Alberta is set to announce a pilot project to address public safety in downtown Calgary.
Premier Danielle Smith said last Thursday, that the pilot could include Alberta sheriffs patrolling the streets and LRT platforms, similar to Edmonton. "They want to help too, they want to make sure that there is active policing that there's active presence, because here's one of the things that I would say, is that police officers are often the point of contact to convince somebody to get into treatment.
"Sheriffs are peace officers so certainly their levels of authority is different and not quite as expansive as police officers, but they certainly, when it comes to enforcing limited criminal code offences as well as provincial offences – which is lots of what we see on transit and that type of thing – they're certainly well qualified to do that," Neufeld said. Neufeld adds that it takes time to train police officers, and it's not something that happens overnight.
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