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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Police Association Weighs In On Regionalisation

The New Brunswick Police Association is throwing it's support behind the regionalization of police services in the province so everybody pays their fair share.

Association President Dean Secord tells CHSJ News people in the rural communities will most likely accept regionalization when they realize they are paying proportionally much less than the municipalities.

He says taxpayers in 17 municipalities pay 100 percent of their policing costs while 84 communities and 268 local services districts are subsidized from between 16 and 31 million dollars from the province.