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Police Week Beyond The Uniform TI1P HERALD WednwUy Mayli Chief looks ahead to future of policing optimistically By CHERYL Herald Stall Member of the Regional Police Force do not the future with fear but rather as an adventure land Mount Everest has been climbed the Everglades have been explored and the source of the Amazon has been discovered said Chief of Police James Harding But no one has been Into the future That i for us Chief James Harding Having the courage to face the future is one thing the chief tells the new recruits who Join one of the best forces in the world The force philosophy which hangs on the police chief office wall states My interest Is lit the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there These words dictate the force operates and helps to keep the future of police force exciting Keeping the region force ranked as one of the top policing bodies is the result of a combination of factors the police chief said First off the force hires bnght energetic and Intelligent recruits to man their stations Police officers who are sparkling with enthusiasm are dynamic and comprise an exciting organization to bring the police force Into the future Chief Harding said The strategies and policing philosophies which govern the Halton force also help make the region police special force reacts to the needs of the community In a preventative proactive and reactive way the chief said Fifty per cent of its resource time is dedicated to preventative policing This results in a safer region to live In Chief Harding said The crime rate has dropped a greater degree In Region than in all of Canada Community based policing en courages members of the com munitles to become actively as volunteers and to participate in the setting or priorities as to where policing activities should be directed through the development of programs The force keeps its eyes to the future Implementing modern technology as it becomes available For example In past years the Region has computerized Its records has a computerized dispatch system and Is Installing mobile display terminals into police cars The police use computers to give back parcels of time that can be us more wisely by the force he said Halton police force Is dedicated to the total well being of police of ficers Seventy per cent of the force is involved In personal fitness Chief Harding said When an of fleer is fit he does not have to be a burden on fellow officers Policing networks around the world are so taken with the structure and workings of the force they send their leaders to Canada to study it The commanders hove read about the experience and want to take a look at the ingredients which have gone nto making the force what It is and will take these Ideas back to awn forces Chief ding said will host visitors from Australia and New Zealand forces who will study what they do and It recently had visitors over from Dennis reporter with the Burlington Post received a media award for best police editorial from Deputy Chief John Former Herald reporters An Pederlan and Sandy Campbell received an honorable mention for tbelr police news stories awards was presented to numerous reporters and citizens by Hal Urn Regional Police force Wednesday night during the Annual Award Night at the Nassagsweya Com munlty Centre Andrew Fletcher or Regional Police Tactical Rescue Unit some of the department a heavy equipment dur ing Police Week demonstration and police force in years When you itnolve the community aspect of policing and have a joint venture with the public you main tain a safer environment In which to life By measuring the amount of at Burlington Mall last Saturday The TilU li housed In Milton and responds to emergency and crisis situations Herald photo feels It con achieve this task s polio chief lives by a quote by r Robert Peel which states Policing is a part of not a partfrom the public It is up to us to take the police force into the future he said In doing so It must remain flexible and versatile in order to best serve the public Region pushes for control of police commission A move to bring the police com mission into the Regional fold by making it an elected body has pass ed the first hurdle Administration and Finance Committee decided May 11 to ask the solicitor general of On to rev ew the pattern of governance of police commissions and their current suitability The motion was Initiated by Oakville Councillor John Graham who wants current system abolished Right now the police commission consists of two regional councillors and three appointed citizens The Police Commission sets the budget and council cannot formally reject it Halton Region can only the commission budget to the Police Commission which Coun Graham says has never been decided in favor of the politicians on budget Issues Coun Graham became involved In a heated debate with Halton police Chief James Harding last month when Chief Harding strongly disagreed with Coun Graham in Illative Coun Graham was angry with the nine per cent increase in the police budget this year Councillors who are accountable for a budget must surely be for it as well said Graham There must be somebody In which can arbitrate the com peting demands for services and Boating deaths on the decline Last year people died in separate fatal boating accidents on waterways patrolled by the Ontario Provincial Police In people died in boating accidents while In 100 people died The reduction in fatalities shows that the Marine Awareness works said Provincial Awareness Coordinator Larry Smith The OPP Marine Awareness pro gram Is a twoprong approach con sis ting of safe boating education combined with vigorous Taw enforce- In Marine patrols checked 33521 boats 58 people were charged with impaired boating and were charged with other liquor law offences said SSgt Smith Safe boaters wear life Jackets and refrain from drinking alcohol while on the waterways Last year 1B4 people were charged and issued warnings for 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