There were a number of increases seen in municipal enforcement activity by the City of North Battleford’s Community Safety Officers in 2016.
Final statistics for the year were presented to the city’s Planning Committee meeting Monday.
For 2016, a total of 14,814 incident activity events were addressed, compared to 11,208 a year earlier.
Community patrols had gone up from 1,067 in 2015 to 1,628 last year, and school zone patrols had also increased, to 680 from 533.
Unregistered vehicle violations went up from 316 to 461.
Suspended driver violations were up from 39 to 116. Residential parking violations were also up from 241 to 436.
There were also increases in animal complaints and investigation, public intoxication and investigation, downtown parking and off heavy truck route violations. Handicap violations and fire lane violations saw a decrease, as did school zone violations, which went down from 173 to 160.
Most increases, however, were attributed to greater enforcement activities due to a larger CSO presence in the community.
“The contributing factor to that is the additional personnel that we have,” said Director of Protective Services Albert Headrick. “And the guys are doing a super job.”
