Levack resident says police presence in outlying communities is so minimal resident ‘forced to patrol the streets’ themselves
There would appear to be a silent crisis happening at 190 Brady St. – home of the Greater Sudbury Police Service. While outlying towns are under siege, residents are forced to patrol the streets to bring some semblance of safety to their neighbours.
As a resident of Levack, I feel they have failed miserably in “ensuring community safety and well being.” Repeated requests to patrol our area were met with all the excuses on why they couldn’t come out, how they were too busy and too short-staffed. Their “complaint-driven policing” smacks of a police service in crisis. A few officers run from one priority call to another while minimizing and trivializing our need to feel protected and valued as a community.
Deputy Chief Sara Cunningham was tasked with the impossible role of explaining the dysfunction by stating, “It depends on the officer’s confidence in driving at excessive speeds, it depends on the weather of the night, it depends on, you know what I mean, so much." Add this to the fact that they have removed the “police storefronts” in outlying communities and the building sold off for pennies on the dollar, and we know exactly where we stand with the police and the city.
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