The plan includes extra police patrols on Pandora and Ellice, enforcement of the ban on daytime sheltering and finding housing for those living in the streets.
The mayor of Victoria is standing behind Victoria police’s three-step plan to make Pandora Avenue and Ellice Street safer, but Marianne Alto says she agrees with Chief Del Manak that the strategy is only “treating symptoms.”
The stepped-up patrols and sweeps are a reaction to a July 11 assault on a paramedic by a patient on the 900-block of Pandora Avenue. The incident led to police and other first responders being swarmed by about 60 people. “As a local government, police and service providers and everyone else who’s working on the ground, we can only fill these gaps temporarily,” Alto said in an interview Wednesday, a day after Manak unveiled the plan.
“I know that there are people who would like to have those services in their home municipalities, and would prefer to stay there if those services existed,” she said.
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