Regina has a new mayor, a new city council and a new year in which to lower crime.
“We’re positive about the crime statistics, but that doesn’t mean we can sit back and rest easy,” says Lorilee Davies, Regina’s Deputy Chief of Police.
New leaders of Saskatchewan’s capital are challenged with setting priorities to make the city safer.
“[The} city council is almost essentially new, and so we will be excited to hear from them what their priorities are,” says Davies. “And the same with our board of police commissioners. We’ve had a lot of turnover there,”
Davies believes community feedback is crucial in upholding Regina’s reputation as a safe city in the coming years.
“We can’t work in the city and police the city without the trust of our community, so we have to understand what the community needs and wants from us,” says Davies. “And we have to be adaptive to be able …