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FALL RIVER:<\/strong> RCMP officers can\u2019t be everywhere despite people, like residents in District 1, wanting them to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s one comment that Councillor Cathy Deagle Gammon gave The Laker News during an interview where she was asked about concerns from residents, including those organizing a community meeting for Sept. 20 at the LWF Hall in Fall River,<\/strong> about \u201cinefficient police presence\u201d and crime in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt’s not that they’re not there, it may be that they’re not visible,\u201d she said when asked about police not being visibly seen. \u201cIt might be not a marked cruiser, or it could be that they are a distance away from where an event is. It could be that something else is going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is such a fluid environment that the RCMP work in, and they have such a huge geography. It’s challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Deagle Gammon said like she\u2019s told residents in the past, send her emails with the concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI meet with the RCMP on a monthly basis, if there is something in between that, I send them emails,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ll tell them listen, there’s been some concerns on this road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI’ve asked people, when is it? Is it morning, evening, weekend? They told me and I gave those details to the RCMP, so they have an awareness of it there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said like she did at the community meeting she organized at the Waverley Legion, where much the same concerns was expressed as what she\u2019s expecting at the Sept. 20 meeting<\/strong> organized by community members, RCMP will be present to answer questions. The meeting will cover a slew of other concerns as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI had the lead inspector come for that meeting in March to talk about how the RCMP actually patrol within this district,\u201d said Deagle Gammon. \u201cAgain, at this upcoming meeting I will bring the RCMP, and they can respond directly to people who say are they available? Where are they? Etc.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Deagle Gammon said it is fully true that police can’t be everywhere at all times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut people do need to feel their presence, and so it is incumbent upon the RCMP to make themselves visible, too,\u201d she said. \u201cSo we’ll talk about how that happens, or it doesn’t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said when they at HRM look at budgeting, one of the things she did at last budget was to vote in favour of increasing officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBoots on the ground is the one way that we get to change things,\u201d said Deagle Gammon. \u201cWhen it comes to budget and policing again, it’s the digging in I have to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSome people say don’t increase policing until we fix policing. Other people say you can’t fix policing unless you have more officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is that kind of interesting conversations that people have to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She said as for the stats for the area, those answers are best left to the RCMP to provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs to where are they, is there more crime, all of those kinds of things,\u201d said Deagle Gammon. \u201cThose are answers that statistically the RCMP will be able to give us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”54″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”192″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”169″] [adrotate banner=”127″] FALL RIVER: RCMP officers can\u2019t be everywhere despite people, like residents in District 1, wanting them to be. 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