Retired police officers added to aid COVID-19 enforcement effort in Saskatchewan
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The SPSA says community leaders reached out for help during the last wave of COVID-19 because of members who refused to follow public health orders.
The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency (SPSA) says retired police officers are brought in to help with enforcing public health orders in the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to SPSA president Marlo Pritchard, during the last wave, many community leaders reached out for help because of community members who were refusing to follow these orders and putting their fellow residents at an increased risk of exposure.
“We are contracting retired police officers based on their skills that they bring to the table, such as investigation, report writing, and this will reduce the need for any specialized training of bringing individuals on,” he said.
“We are … taking action to help take the pressure off our front-line police services in the province as well as enhancing the capacity of the public health inspectors through the COVID enforcement team.”
During a COVID-19 briefing on Wednesday, Pritchard added the secure isolation site is being re-established.
“The site is specifically for those individuals who willfully fail to comply with isolation orders to prevent the spread of COVID-19 while contagious,” he said.
“The previous site closed as of July 11, 2021, when the public health orders ended. This site is being reintroduced to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the community.”
On Oct. 7, the Saskatchewan government announced the provincial command was being activated through the SPSA’s provincial emergency operations centre (PEOC) to lead the emergency management response to COVID-19. The current provincial emergency order was declared on Sept. 13.
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