Ontario Provincial Police steps up efforts to recruit more officers across Northwestern Ontario.
As looming staffing shortages affect all sectors in northwestern Ontario, provincial police are not immune to the current climate of choice for job seekers.
Stewart told the Greenstone council there have been challenges in terms of staffing, but they are managing to ensure the community is serviced. The provincial police force stations new hires where there is a need, but there is a time commitment. After that time commitment is over, officers can choose to stay within the community or move to a different detachment.
“Often those people end up wanting to return because of a number of different reasons like family and different things like that,” Mills said. “With that turnover comes holes in the services offered by those detachments and then other officers can step in and fill those holes,” said Mills. Mills took the opportunity to move into the emergency response unit for 12 years before transitioning into the training unit for 12 years.
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