Waterloo regional police to give update on COVID-19 vaccine directive
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Waterloo Regional Police Chief Bryan Larkin is expected to give a press conference Thursday afternoon to provide an update on the service's COVID-19 vaccine directive.
No further details on what the directive would be were immediately available.
Earlier in the week, public information officer Const. Andre Johnson responded to a CBC Kitchener-Waterloo email asking about vaccination levels for members of the police service.
"We are currently at an 87 per cent vaccination rate," Johnson said.
In September, the Region of Waterloo announced all employees, volunteers and students would need to be vaccinated. Paramedics were subject to the mandate; however, members of the Waterloo Regional Police Service were not. While their budget comes from the region, members of the service are not considered to be regional employees.
CBC K-W had also asked about comments made by a Waterloo regional police officer during a media briefing with Cambridge MPP Belinda Karahalios last weekend. Karahalios was speaking out against rules that parents must be vaccinated in order to enter sporting facilities to watch their children play.
Steve McKenna, a former NHL player and now a member of the police service, said it wasn't fair professional athletes could cross the border to play their sports, but parents were not able to watch, and in turn young children who need supervision were unable to play sports if the parents were not vaccinated.
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