Battling gangs Provincial Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services Jim Bradley was at the Guelph Police station Friday, to announce $113,000 in funding to help Guelph Police battle gang activity.Police Chief Rob Davis expects to hire an officer devoted to monitoring gun and gang crime with provincial funding announced Friday.
“We have, over the past couple of years, seen an increase in people coming into town wearing gang colours,” Davis said in an interview, adding they are seen by officers in the downtown at night wearing coloured bandanas and handkerchiefs in their pockets. “They certainly want to make a connection with the drug trade here. A lot of these gangs are looking for easy money.”
Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services Jim Bradley and Guelph MPP Liz Sandals were at the Guelph Police station Friday afternoon to announce $113,333 in funding for the Guelph Police Service.
The funds are part of a $15-million investment in the next two years to help Ontario police services fight gang activity, as part of the Provincial Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy.
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