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Downtown police blitz

Monday is being looked upon as the first day of a new downtown Prince George as an RCMP unit begins a blitz towards a safer and cleaner heart of the city.

Monday is being looked upon as the first day of a new downtown Prince George as an RCMP unit begins a blitz towards a safer and cleaner heart of the city.

The five-member downtown enforcement unit was introduced early Monday, but was delayed a few minutes for the arrival of two of the members who were processing their first arrest of an intoxicated person in the George Street and Second Avenue area.

Downtown enforcement unit members are Cpl. Kent MacNeill, Cst. Nathan Poyzer, Cst. Robert Rattary, Cst. Lane Tobin and Cst. Philippe Charron.

MacNeil, who leads the troop, said the hope is "to make downtown a safer place where the people of Prince George want to come."

The fact the launch was held in front of the closed Prince George Hotel was no accident.

"This has been a venue where we saw a lot of congregating of people and lot of complaints, but since it has closed there has already been a difference," said RCMP Supt. Brenda Butterworth-Carr.

Read the rest of the story in The Citizen

--btrick@pgcitizen.ca


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