Blyth And East-Wawanosh About To Get Railroaded Into Switching To Wingham Police Service

Years ago Council and Town Staff convinced the Public that keeping

our local municipal police force was going to be far cheaper than

OPP. This has obviously turned out to be untrue, and staff

have admitted this. Wingham Policing cost a massive 2X that of

OPP, an incredible burden to Winghamites.

Note: We have to call in the OPP for K-9, drug busts, backup, search

and rescue, helicopter and any semi-serious crime.

Council and the Old Boy’s Club seem set on expanding the Wingham

Police to Blyth and East-Wawanosh.

Now our entire Municipality is dragged into the debate of Wingham

Policing costs. Blyth and East-Wawanosh residents will have to

speak out, or they will be railroaded into getting rid of the OPP

and switching to the grotesquely expensive Wingham Police, further

expanding Town Staff. Currently it takes at least 7 Wingham

Police to service the .99 square mile of Wingham. 7 cops per

square mile.

At last night’s council meeting, council discussed expanding the

Wingham Police Service to cover all of North Huron, and seemed to be

under the impression our neighboring municipalities were interested

in getting rid of the cost effective OPP and using a less equipped

North Huron Police Service”. It seems these lofty assertions

were complete BS.

Councillor Brock Vodden spoke out and stated that he was pleased

with the OPP service in Blyth