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The Lethbridge Police Service is responding to criticisms leveled at them during last week’s police commission meeting by a group of Westminster area residents for not responding fast enough when they call to report a problem in their local park.
Insp. Jason Dobirstein, of the LPS Field Operations, acknowledges that sometimes it takes longer to respond to these concerns depending on whether the call is high priority, as in an emergent call in progress, or of lower priority when there appears to be no immediate threat to members of the public.
Insp. Jason Dobirstein, of the LPS Field Operations, acknowledges that sometimes it takes longer to respond to these concerns depending on whether the call is high priority, as in an emergent call in progress, or of lower priority when there appears to be no immediate threat to members of the public.
However, states Dobirstein, the Public Safety Communications Centre has to make a determination how and when to task the limited available officers on shift based on a scale of priorities…
