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Neighbours want Wingham Police says Vincent
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
Policing in North Huron as a
whole, as well as in its neighbouring
municipalities, may be the next
protection issue facing North Huron
Council.
Currently, council is in the midst
of trying to determine whether the
Wingham Police Service should
continue to have its own police
service or whether it should be
handled by the Ontario Provincial
Police (OPP) like the rest of North
Huron.
A special council meeting has
been set for Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. at the
Town Hall Theatre in Wingham to
allow council to receive more
feedback.
The decision to hold the meeting
was made after the Wingham Police
Association, not to be confused with
the Wingham Police Service, sent a
letter to council in support of
disbanding the Wingham Police
Service.
The letter was one of dozens
presented at council's Feb. 5
meeting, most of which spoke to a
desire to keep Wingham Police
Service in the town.
Reeve Neil Vincent said the
message he was getting from
ratepayers is that Wingham ward
ratepayers want to continue with the
current service level.
He said if North Huron switched
to an OPP service and wanted to
maintain the same level of service, it
would require enhanced policing
options from the OPP which would
mean less or no savings over the
Wingham Police Service.
Councillor Bill Knott said he
would prefer this issue be answered
directly by Wingham ratepayers
instead of being voted on by council,
unfortunately, as Councillor Brock
Vodden pointed out, that wasn't an
option.
"We have to vote," Vodden said.
"The decision has to be made by
council and, if we abstain, we're
voting in the negative. We are
obliged to make a decision on which
way we're voting."
Council members said they were
under the impression that Wingham
wanted to maintain its existing
policing service, indicating that,
when they do vote, they would
follow that desire.
Another issue that was brought up
was whether the Wingham Police
Service could be expanded to cover
other parts of North Huron.
Vodden said the issue had received
very little attention thus far, but is
something council should be aware
of. After the meeting, Vodden said he
didn't think expanding the service
was worthwhile. However if there
was a desire to investigate it from
ratepayers, council needed to
consider it.
Vincent also said that, while
expanding the Wingham Police
Service in North Huron wasn't
something he had heard much
support for, he had discussions with
neighbouring municipalities' council
members who had expressed interest
in purchasing police service.
"I don't think I'm at liberty to
mention which municipalities," he
said, "but I know there [are] possibly
four municipalities that would like to
look at something other than the
OPP. The Wingham ward has to be
decided first, but there may be
something in the future worth
discussing later on."
Vincent said that, with the OPP
building a new station in Clinton,
some municipal representatives have
voiced concern about future police
services.
While Vincent and Vodden said
expanding the service should be
investigated, East Wawanosh
representative Ray Hallahan said he
didn't get the impression that was
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