A plan to give police officers the power to arrest people suspected of trespassing is being met with skepticism that it will have any meaningful impact on issues businesses are facing around panhandling and vandalism.
New Brunswick Public Safety Minister Kris Austin says he's working on legislation that would enable police officers to force people into addictions treatment, even if they haven't committed a crime.
Public Safety Minister Kris Austin is leaning on senior law-enforcement officers to back his argument that rising crime rates in the province warrant new spending on policing and on provincial jails.
The provincial government is partnering with New Brunswick police forces and the RCMP to crack down on drug and gun crime through the use of "integrated enforcement units," according to Woodstock police Chief Gary Forward, who's also the president of the province's police chiefs association.