False alarm policy may be working

It's too early to say for sure, but preliminary numbers suggest Sault Ste. Marie Police Service's new false alarm policy may be working.

The new policy, which charges $75 for unnecessary false alarms, was implemented May 1.

Between that date and May 22, police received 105 alarm calls, a drop of 42 percent from the 181 received during the same period last year. Still, all but three of those 105 calls were considered false alarms. "It is too early to properly assess whether the new policy has met its objectives," says police chief Robert Davies (shown above).

"However, the initial results continue to show that with rare exception, the alarm calls for police response are false. It is encouraging that the number of false alarms has decreased over the same period last year.

New recruits hired

In other news, police announced the hiring of Darren Sirie and Robert Wright as recruit constables, and Sonny Spina as a special constable.

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