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Police detail big jump in calls for service
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There has been a “significant” increase in calls for service from the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment during the last three months. Inspector Ray Carfantan told councillors in the Municipality of North Cowichan Wednesday that the detachment’s quarterly report states that the number of service calls increased 18 per cent from the same period last year. He said the detachment received 4,535 calls for service in the first three months of 2016, compared to 3,850 in the same period in 2015. Carfantan said if the trend continues, the detachment is in for an overall increase this year of almost 2,500 calls for service. He said one cause for the increase in calls is the growing population in the region. “We have also been very expressive recently about the fact that we want to be called (about crimes).” Carfantan said. “We’ve been telling the public that when they have information that should be reported, it might be a small piece of a larger puzzle that’s important to us.”
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