Creighton and Denare Beach have a chance
to bolster community safety.
Under the province’s new Community Safety Officer (CSO) program, any Saskatchewan community can apply to hire CSOs.
“This will allow communities to address low-risk to harm, high-priority policing needs,” said Corrections and Policing Minister Christine Tell.
CSOs will help meet needs such as traffic and liquor enforcement and bylaw enforcement, and serve as a crime-prevention community liaisons.
Introducing CSOs is expected to free up
the RCMP and municipal police officers to focus on higher impact needs in participating communities.
A pilot program implemented by North Battleford this summer will serve as the model for other Saskatchewan communities. A six-week curriculum for CSOs is being developed at Saskatchewan Polytechnic. The first class of recruits should begin training in February 2015, with graduates expected to be working by mid-2015.
