Mounties honour community partners for work with youth, victims of domestic violence

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Brittany Ashmore, Crown prosecutor in Red Deer says she is honoured and humbled by the recognition for her efforts in working to divert youth from the criminal justice system.

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“It’s been a pleasure to work with officers like Cst. Sean Morris and Cpl. Karyn Kay in the community policing section and it makes it really quite easy to do my job with the information that they provide,” she says. “The information they provide gives a better context as to what the youth we’re dealing with have going on in their lives. We can then divert appropriately to deal with the underlying circumstances that are really causing this young person to come before us in the criminal justice system.”

Red Deer RCMP inspector Gerald Grobmeier says it’s important for them to recognize the work Alberta Justice and Central Alberta Women’s Outreach Society do for them and the impact their partnerships have on the community.

“So often they’re in the background and the shadows and nobody really knows what they’re doing,” he explains. “It’s also to show that safety in any community is so much broader perspective than just policing. We are only one part, there are so many different agencies, so many different groups, so many different individuals that all comprise community safety, so it’s a small way for us to say thank you and bring them to the forefront so people can realize the good work that they do.”

Grobmeier says Red Deer RCMP is fully committed to these partnerships and collaborations that he says are making our community safer every day.

“When you talk about youth intervention, the partnership we have with the Crown here, if we didn’t have Brittany and Crown on board with us, we would not be able to intervene with these children earlier and divert them from the court process,” states Grobmeier. “Regarding domestic violence, it’s such a large topic in society and to have these social workers that are embedded right here in our detachment working with us and giving the aid to these victims and families that we as police officers simply can’t is outstanding. We can provide a wrap-around service to these people that before we wouldn’t be able to do.”