Tourism Minister Trevor Holder is petitioning the Public Safety Minister to keep the SCAN program going. Wendy Barron Belmore of ONE Change tells CHSJ News there's no question people prefer the anonymous program to calling the cops, because police scanners are everywhere these days and they don't want to get a reputation in the neighbourhood as a police informant.
Barron-Belmore says SCAN has been effective in getting drug dealers out of the neighborhood but they don't want to simply shuffle the criminal activity from one neighborhood to another.
