The trend continues for city police with criminal offences being down and calls for service being up.

But, the way police report on stats could be revamped in the new year, once the new police board is sworn in after the municipal election.

Deputy Chief Scott Tod tells BayToday they’ll include gross numbers on police activity, but that’s not all.

“All of the dispatched incidents that we respond to in the community so people get a perspective that having a police service is not just about fighting crime, it’s also about community safety and well-being and we do a lot of things in the community that people don’t see,” he says.

“It’ll have some information in regards to the amount of time we spend on complex criminal investigations and also the time of day offences occur, where they occur in a general term, by zone, not by address,” Tod says.

Pending board approval, the hope is to have the information available publicly on their website next year.

The August crime stats released at last week’s city police services board meeting show total criminal offences were down 87, year over year, to 2307.

Calls for service were up 1,634 to a total of 20,583.

 

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