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City backs off on charging for criminal record checks Kristen Douglas Campbell RiveR miRRoR
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The Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock makes it way down the Island Highway between Port McNeill and Campbell River before rolling into Campbell River yesterday. The annual ride from Port Hardy to Victoria to raise funds for and awareness of childhood cancer kicked off on Sunday. The riders arrived shortly after the Mirror’s noon deadline yesterday. See pictures on campbellrivermirror. com and in Friday’s paper.
No psyche services for new hospital MiKe Davies Campbell RiveR miRRoR
At one point in the planning of the new pair of hospitals for our area – one in Campbell River and
one in the Comox Valley – it was thought the Campbell River location would be the site of the region’s psychiatric services. But that was not to be. Since the current psychiatric
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facility is located in St. Joseph’s in Comox, the new Comox Valley facility will retain these services, and Campbell River will have no psychiatric services available at its new hospital.
The city is holding off on increasing fees for criminal record checks following a public backlash over a proposal to charge volunteers. Council however did go ahead at its Sept. 14 meeting with upping the cost of other police service fees such as fingerprinting and requests for disclosure and reports requiring research. Carrie Jacobs, the city’s RCMP municipal manager, said the fee increase will more accurately reflect the cost of providing those services. “We are increasingly being requested by other government agencies, legal counsel and the general public for copies of information from police files,” Jacobs said. “These requests require a significant amount of staff time to locate and compile the data, and expurgate the data for any third party information. The recommended changes to fees and charges are required to establish an equitable approach to recover the costs of staff resources required to provide these services.” Increased fees for criminal record checks, however, which city council was considering in August, have been put on the back burner until October. After the Mirror’s report that city staff were recommending council increase the fee for criminal record checks to $50 and implement a $25
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