The Mounties remain in charge in Grande Prairie until the local force takes over primary jurisdiction in the city of 60,000 in Alberta’s northwest on April 1, 2026.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time. Grande Prairie Police Service Chief Dwayne Lakusta adjusts his glasses during an interview with The Canadian Press in his office in Grande Prairie, Alta., Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024.
Click to share quote on Twitter: "If it's a call for a suicide, we'll send a mental health worker instead of an officer with a gun."“It’s an opportunity for us to do something unique,” Clayton said in an interview at city hall. “My first no vote was really just to delay and to give our public the opportunity to be more part of the discussion,” Thiessen said in an interview.“For us to be able to do a cost analysis five years from now, for instance, is tricky. We’re just ballparking numbers.
Clayton and Lakusta said a few other communities in Alberta and at least one in Nova Scotia are watching closely as they consider making the transition.
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