Province receives funding to tackle gun violence
The Federal Minister of Public Services and Procurement Helena Jaczek was in St. John's today to announce $3.57 million in programs to help stop gun crime and gang violence.
The funding will be provided to the province over the next five years.
This funding comes from the $390 million funding announcement made on May 8.
Other provinces have used these funds for various initiatives. In Quebec, the funding was used for Operation Centaur, a province-wide initiative that reinforces police with specialized units, disrupts firearms trafficking and prevents crime. In British Columbia, funding supports the Organized Crime Agency of British Columbia, a dedicated police agency to fight gun smuggling, drug trafficking and other forms of organized crime.
Statistics Canada says that though firearms were present in a small proportion of all violent crimes, incidents where a firearm was present more commonly involved multiple victims and resulted in major injury or death compared to incidents where another type of weapon or no weapon was present.
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