By Tara de Ryk
March 1, 2010

DAVIDSON-The town wants Craik RCMP to re-establish its satellite police office in Davidson.

This was the main issue town council had for Craik RCMP Corp. Gary Bonneau, who was at council's meeting last Tuesday.

 "We really liked it when we had an officer here," Mayor Mary Jane Morrison said, asking Bonneau to keep working on re-establishing the office.

She referred to the former situation of Craik RCMP having a member work out of an office in Davidson's town hall one day a week.

The service was discontinued due to personnel changes and shortages at the detachment.

Bonneau said the detachment is now back to its full complement of officers, however, it has had to loan a member to the Lumsden detachment, which is short three members due to having to provide security for the Olympics in Vancouver.

He said when the Olympics are over and everything has settled down, the Davidson office issue would be re-visited.

Bonneau told council he's gathering information to complete the detachment's performance plan and wondered if council had concerns about Davidson that the RCMP could address.

Overall, council seemed pleased with the police service.

"You guys are doing a good job. Just keep doing what you're doing," Coun. Clayton Schneider said.

Bonneau gave councillors a break down of police statistics for last year.

In 2009 members of Craik RCMP Detachment responded to 364 calls for service in Davidson.
The breakdown of those calls is as follows:
25 collisions
39 seatbelts
30 stop signs
10 speeding
16 other various driving infractions such as failure to signal
124 tickets were issued
1 impaired driving
11 liquor tickets
44 other calls under various acts
1 firearms act
2 drug charges
8 uttering threats
8 assaults
20 theft under $5,000
1 theft of a vehicle under $5,000
2 theft of a vehicle over $5,000
2 possession of stolen property
15 mischief charges
11 break and enter
25 false alarms

Bonneau said the eight uttering threats charges and the eight assaults are fairly high for a community such as Davidson, however, all told, he said crimes against people are not that bad.

"Property crime is usually our biggest concern and what we struggle with here," Bonneau said. "To be honest, we've got a few people who account for the bulk of those and that's who we want to keep our thumb on."

To do it, Bonneau said officers are keeping tabs on past offenders to make sure they adhere to their release and probation conditions.

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