The time between October 1st and December 31st represents the RCMP's third quarter. Staff Sergeant Rheal Gravel says in that time period there was a decrease in theft under $5,000 and theft from vehicles, but an increase from 7 break and enters in 2015 to 13 in 2016. He notes they anticipate those numbers to go down over the next few months.
"We have noticed with the last arrest of some of these individuals, that they were responsible for quite a few of these numbers being up. I am quite confident during the next quarter, you are going to see a substantial drop in reportable incidences of that type."
Gravel says they have noticed an increase in community involvement in Niverville and he encourages residents to report any offense or incidence. He notes the over the last year there has been a significant increase in calls throughout their detachment area.
"A 16% increase in calls for service creates a very heavy investigative burden and workload on the individual members. We talk about quality versus quantity of work, I would like to see more members so that they can do an acceptable amount of workload so that we can do these call backs and communicate more with non-emergent situations."
Gravel says the increase in calls to service can largely be attributed to the quickly growing population of the region.
Mayor Myron Dyck says council receives updates from the RCMP every quarter. He says the RCMP can only work on what is reported.
"The numbers that we get are reportable offenses, so there is a reminder to the public to continue to report. When it comes to things like break and enter or crimes against property, if they are not reported the stats are going to go down, but is that an accurate depiction of what is going on in the community? again the encouragement to report offenses."
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