The Calgary Police Service (CPS) is adding another 48 officers to the frontlines to meet the demands of the city’s increasing population and to deal with ongoing policing challenges.
All of the officers will be relocated from existing units and from two community stations that are closing.
Brae Centre and the Riverbend Community Stations in District 6 will be closing May 6, 2016. CPS is working to find other opportunities for the volunteers who were working out of those stations.
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Through the reallocation, District 2 and District 3 will each get 20 new officers, and District 4 and 5 will each get another four officers.
In a press release Wednesday, CPS said that the distribution was based on the number of calls for service per officer as well as the number of calls in each district.
All of the changes take effect May 6, and any remaining vacancies will be managed through the recruitment classes that graduate in May and July of 2016.
CPS said the reallocation is not connected in any way to the resource decision made by former Police Chief Rick Hanson in District 5.
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