Mayor: provincial, federal help needed to conquer crime in N.B.
According to North Battleford Mayor Ryan Bater, the city needs provincial and federal help in order to truly overcome the crime problem in the city.
The city’s crime issue was recently pushed into the national spot light when it became the subject of a Maclean’s Magazine article calling it the ‘Most Dangerous City in Canada.
Bater said the city is doing more than any other in the country in an effort to combat crime and added the HUB and SAGE programs are doing great work, but admitted there is only so much the municipality can do.
“The programs are clearly determining crime in our community is directly linked to mental health and addictions,” Bater said. “We would like a conversation with the province in terms of the existing delivery of mental health and addictions services and some new programs that could be explored. Specifically, perhaps we need to explore a detox centre and or a rooming house.”