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Faced with a cop shortage, some officials look to private policing

Mick Dumke 25 August 2011 No Comment
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Among the questions Chatham residents had for police Superintendent Garry McCarthy at a community forum Saturday was one asked by a lot of people around the city: “Are you going to hire more police?”

As another resident went on to explain: “We don’t have much of a police presence here. And crime is spreading to the side streets.”

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