SARM anxious to hear plans for regional police forces
The provincial government announced plans to amend The Police Act to allow rural municipalities and small communities with a population under 500 to join regional police services, and that’s welcome news for the president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM).
Ray Orb told paNOW he was anxious to hear the details of the plan, announced in Wednesday’s Throne Speech.
“The only concern we have is that we don’t want the funding to the RCMP to be cut back anyway because we are still asking for more RCMP officers for greater visibility,” he said.
The premier has not specified which police services the province is looking at or if more funding would be made available to those services. Orb said he could envision the small communities assisting RCMP in a variety of ways.