Winnipeg police create new unit that focuses on lower priority calls

[CBH99]

Thoughts??

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-police-rapid-response-unit-9.7183050

 

[RangerRay]

I’m curious how this is going to work. Im kind of puzzled thinking how this will change things while retaining current staffing.

 

[lenaitch]

I'm not even clear on what they are trying to accomplish. Some of the proposed duties, like parades and special events could be done by special constables, traffic wardens or something similar. They could even extend that to barking dogs, some alarms and other 'non-priority' calls.

I'm confused with a 'rapid response' unit handling non-urgent type calls.

 

[mariomike]

I'm confused with a 'rapid response' unit handling non-urgent type calls.

Not sure why they would send "Clock-Stoppers" to deferable calls.

At least, that's my understanding of a Rapid Response Unit.

Members will be directing traffic

It's the same number of officers, they're just in a different package

 

[OldSolduer]

I’m curious how this is going to work. Im kind of puzzled thinking how this will change things while retaining current staffing.

Our newest chief of police does not inspire confidence in me. I’m not sure about his intentions.

 

[brihard]

Winnipeg police have pensionable overtime, which the employer has tried and failed to get rid of. I wouldn’t be surprised if they want to get a unit in place to help reduce some of the sorts of duties that often go to overtime members, like special events.

 

[Booter]

It’ll be cheaper to have that flexible unit of floaters than to have people on paid duty, it’s like brihard said,

Nothing they are saying is new or not used elsewhere- it’s just a blocked off set of people that are flexing each shift around what that shift needs- while selling it as they are dealing with the long hanging “priority 5” calls.

They haven’t made anything new but a weird naming convention for a thing that is essentially just offsetting the amount of paid duty the city has.

I’m reasonably confident when you look at them in a year you’ll find they do almost zero handling of long hanging low priority files with the exception of a couple peak days.