Monday’s  Committee of the Whole meeting provided some good news regarding the Community Safety Officers.

Mayor Colleen Smook shared the details yesterday on City Beat.

“Another one of the good things is that we’ve been short CSOs as you’ve been aware. We’ve been seeing challenge getting some more but we are now up to a full complement of four, the last one is just doing some training, and one of our CSO is acting in the place of our License Inspector but he’ll be back out patrolling the streets very shortly.”

In June 2014, Manitoba amended The Police Services Act to allow municipalities to create Community Safety Officer Programs to enhance public safety in their communities.

The City of Thompson was selected to partner with Manitoba on a two-year pilot CSO Program. Making Thompson the first municipality to have CSO’s.

Smook said the License Inspector position has been interviewed for and we should hear more details about the outcome soon.