The numbers don’t lie — it was a busy year for St. Thomas police.
The police service announced on Monday that it had exceeded 20,000 reported incidents in 2019, marking a new record for the St. Thomas force.
The news comes nearly two weeks after St. Thomas police struck a partnership to begin answering emergency calls for Aylmer police, a force that serves the town just 20 minutes east of the Railway City.
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The partnership is intended to foster increased communication between the two cities.
It also sees St. Thomas taking the burden off a communications centre in Owen Sound that previously provided dispatching services to Aylmer on top of a number of other police agencies and fire departments.
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