The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) is partially suspending its plan to close neighborhood police stations.
Posted at 4:47 p.m.
The organization explained in an internal statement obtained by The Press, Wednesday afternoon, that it “postpones its approach to external consultations” on its reform.
“The SPVM has decided to temporarily postpone the continuation of external consultations relating to the reflection on its service offer and its police model”, indicates the organization. “The SPVM will call on the Commission de la sécurité publique de la Ville de Montréal to specify the terms of external consultations surrounding the continuation of this reflection project. »
A few minutes later, the organization issued a more cryptic press release, which did not mention the suspension of the reform project. It limits itself to indicating that the SPVM “will ask the Commission de la sécurité publique (CSP) of the City of Montreal to establish the terms and conditions surrounding the public consultations that will be carried out as part of its reflection on its service offer”.
Police chief Sylvain Caron triggered an outcry in early January, evoking his desire to put a cross on the neighborhood police model that has prevailed in Montreal for 25 years. He claimed that maintaining the current 30 neighborhood stations was too costly in terms of human and financial resources.
With Daniel Renaud, The Press