SYDNEY, N.S. — The Cape Breton Regional Municipality is doubling down on its spat with the provincial Department of Justice over who should be responsible for patrolling 100-series highways and a portion of Route 4 within municipal boundaries.
“What that means is there is a $348,000 reduction reflected in our cost recovery for the 2023-24 fiscal year — which is the amount we have previously received in this MOU for two officers plus coverage of RCMP highway jurisdiction after hours,” Walsh said during that meeting. “The MOU was an agreement under which the CBPRS provided officers and equipment to assist the RCMP in providing the policing services they are responsible for, and were already providing, on provincial highways in the CBRM. The CBRPS officers were seconded to the RCMP, and the RCMP paid the CBRM for the officers.
“The Nova Scotia Police Act is very clear: that policing provincial highways within a municipal boundary is the responsibility of all of the municipalities. When Cape Breton police ended that contract, the province had to step in to help ensure that public safety was maintained. But it is the responsibility of the municipality to both find and provide that policing — as it is all across Nova Scotia.
“Since amalgamation , it is detailed in the service exchange agreement … that the province of Nova Scotia is responsible for the 100-series highways. And the RCMP will patrol . That has always been the case,” McDougall-Merrill had said during a May 7 information session with the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities.
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