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Apr 19, 2021 2:57 PM
Thanks to a partnership with the Saskatoon Tribal Council (STC), frontline police officers in the city are rolling up their sleeves.
“We’ve had some luck,” Cooper told Gormley on Monday. “We’re hoping to have our frontline staff vaccinated here, mid-week, (or) as many as possible, thanks to that partnership.”
As for the rest of the staff? Cooper had an idea on when they’ll get their inoculations.
“As soon as the mobile clinics are free. Right now, the mobile clinics are working with congregate living centres in the province,” he explained.
Cooper said those clinics should be available for the Saskatoon Police Service closer to the end of April.
SASKATOON Saskatoon Police Service Chief Troy Cooper says he’s happy to see the province move towards creating additional police oversight. “The Chiefs of Police in Saskatchewan have been lobbying for this to occur for a while now,” Cooper told CTV News in an interview. It its 2021 budget, the Government of Saskatchewan announced it would provide $287,000 to the Public Complaints Commission to develop the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT). The group would be tasked with looking into situations that involve serious injuries or deaths involving police officers. Cooper says now it’s just a matter of looking at how it’s implemented.
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The province has amended its vaccine delivery plan, allowing for first responders including police, firefighters and public health inspectors to receive COVID-19 shots via mobile vaccination units.
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