Two Thompsonites brought their concerns on the state of local 911 services to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security with a little help from our MP.
In a recent report, Niki Ashton says that Geri Dixon and Alicia Bedford were invited to speak to the committee about Bedford’s experience of waiting on hold for the RCMP while someone was actively trying to break into her home.
Ashton said that she had asked for the House of Commons to talk to the two about this issue, after it was raised by Dixon and Bedford in September at a meeting of Thompson City Council.
The NDP M-P says that she has spoken out in support of those who have been put on hold while trying to report a crime in progress, and that she stands behind a petition calling for the establishment of an emergency call centre in Thompson to serve the north.
