RCMP build relationships with Red Deer businesses during COVID transition
Red Deer RCMP are receiving kudos for their work to build relationships with businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The economic environment was already difficult prior to the world as we knew it being halted in its tracks, and the pandemic only caused anxiety to creep higher.
This is why, as Cpl. Michael Evans explains, the detachment’s Community Policing Unit made a concerted effort to ramp up presence where empty businesses lingered, awaiting the day patrons would return.
“We wanted to know how they were doing and address any concerns they had,” says Evans. “If we couldn’t answer a question, we referred them to AHS or the provincial government, as well as Biz Connect Alberta, a website not a lot of businesses were familiar with.”