The City of Winnipeg is taking the next steps on a fourth emergency response pathway, after the model was approved by city council.
“Presently, when someone calls 911, the dispatcher only has three choices,” Mayor Scott Gillingham told Winnipeg city council Thursday.
“They can send police officers, firefighters or paramedics — but not every call requires one of those, or a combination of those three responses.”
To that end, city council unanimously agreed to adopt and begin the development of the Winnipeg Community Crisis Response (WCCR) Model at their final meeting before the October municipal election.
The WCCR is a fourth crisis response…
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