Okotoks RCMP Present Ultimate 2020 Quarterly Report

Okotoks RCMP offered their remaining quarterly report of 2020 to town council on Monday.

Some figures highlighted in the report contain an maximize in Assault phone calls, with 33 in this quarter in contrast to 22 in the very same quarter of 2019, however there was a slight reduce from the prior quarter in 2020.

Motor Car Collisions observed a reduce of 31% against the 5-calendar year ordinary, and 51% in opposition to the same quarter in 2019.

There were being 14 Break & Enter calls, an enhance of 100% from 2019.

Personnel Sergeant Zane Semaniuk, who introduced the report, suggests the greater part of all those phone calls occurred in Okotoks’ industrial place and were attributed to two persons who were arrested by Okotoks RCMP in partnership with the Southern Alberta District Crime Reduction group.

Irrespective of RCMP anticipating an increase in Assets Crime in 2020, that failed to close up happening, which Semaniuk partly attributed to enhanced visibility and local community engagement.

Robberies seemed to exhibit a sharp improve, with 7 phone calls in contrast to just 2 in 2017 and none in any other of the last five many years. Semaniuk suggests he appeared into the outlier.

“I done a databases look at, and the precise range of robbery occurrences was three. Of all those 3 occurrences, two of the occurrences were being cleared by demand and the other had insufficient proof to progress.”

Spousal abuse calls increased from the earlier 12 months at 65 when compared to 52 in Q4 of 2019, even though they have been lessen than the prior quarter and underneath the 5-year average.

Semaniuk also outlined some highlights from the over-all year, which integrated a 27% lessen in Assets Crime, a 23% lessen in Theft of Motor Automobiles, and a 44% lessen in Theft Beneath $5000.

 

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