Most types of crime that Thompson RCMP tracks for its monthly reports to the city’s public safety committee are down through the first 11 months of this year as compared to the same time in 2017.
Eight of 14 crime categories are down from the first 11 months of 2017, including domestic assaults, break-and-enters, thefts, public disorder offences, other Criminal Code and mischief incidents, liquor offences, Criminal Code traffic violations and provincial traffic offences. Other Criminal Code and mischief incidents were down 315 from the first 11 months of 2017, while public disorder offences are down 187, liquor offences down 111 incidents and there have been 40 fewer domestic assaults reported.
Assaults are up 122 incidents from the first 11 months of 2017, while there have been 65 more drug offences recorded, 33 more traffic collisions, 117 more missing persons and requests to locate, 11 more sexual assaults and one more homicide.
RCMP have also conducted 143 more offender management curfew checks through the end of November compared to the first 11 months of 2017. There have also been 14 more Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrants executed in Thompson this year, 72 more non-Criminal Code moving traffic violations and 15 more visits to the damp house at 95 Cree Rd. There have been 11 fewer impaired driving incidents in 2018 compared to the first first 11 months of 2017.
Assaults, drug offences, liquor offences, Criminal Code traffic offences, and missing persons and requests to locate were all up this November compared to 2017. Assaults, public disorder offences and missing persons and requests to locate were up in October over the previous year.
Four more people were charged with impaired operation of vehicles in November of this year than in the same month of 2017 but there were 12 fewer impaired operation of vehicle incidents in October of this year compared to last.
The municipal policing report will be presented to the public safety committee at their meeting Nov. 13 at 4 p.m. at City Hall.
