CBRM Crime Rate Down: Police Chief

by Dave DesveauxSeptember 12, 2017

The Regional Municipality’s crime rate went down last year.

Chief Peter MacIsaac went over the municipality’s 2016 crime stats at today’s meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners at City Hall in Sydney.

MacIsaac says the overall crime rate went down by 14 and a half percent last year, and he adds the figure has gone down by more than 30% over the past five years.

Violent crime was down by 17% last year.

MacIsaac says last year’s numbers are a result of hard work by members of the force.

Earlier today, the Commissioners got a presentation on Harm Reduction from the provincial Health Authority.

Laura Chapman, who’s with health promotion and prevention, says one means of harm reduction locally is eight sharps kiosks to take used needles.

She adds hundreds of thousands of pieces of drug-using equipment have been collected from the kiosks.

Dave Desveaux

Dave Desveaux, a native of New Waterford leverages his experience and passion for research in The Coast 89.7 Newsroom where as the Weekday Newscaster. His foray into radio began with a research position at The Coast, which led to the production of a radio documentary on the music of the Mi’kmaq people. The program, entitled “First Nations, First Music” was co-produced with fellow Coast personality Ron Neville and released in early 2011. A graduate of Breton Education Centre, Dave went on to get a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Sociology from Cape Breton University, as well as a Master of Arts Degree in Sociology from Dalhousie University. He has worked as a teaching assistant at Dalhousie, and in various short-term customer service and research positions.

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