The Dauphin Co-op is still looking for volunteers to help bring the Citizens on Patrol Program (COPP) to Dauphin.
Safety Manager Richard Ives says that they are in need of at least six more volunteers.
"I handed out approximately thirty-five information packages in the two short days that we were in the food store and I received about six or seven of the applications back, which is... good, but we're always looking for more," he adds.
Ives is inviting anyone interested in becoming a volunteer to stop by the administration office at the Co-op Food Store. They can give him a telephone call as well at 204-648-3698.
"If there's an interest for us to have another table in the food store and just share some information a couple [of] days a week, we can certainly do that as well. That information is here. We can hand it out and certainly recruit folks in all sorts of ways," he adds.
Richard Ives says that once they get enough volunteers, the next steps would be to apply for a group with Citizens on Patrol and then coordinate it with the RCMP.
"Citizens on Patrol will come out in person or do some virtual training for the volunteers just so that they are aware of what the policies and procedures are [and] their responsibilities... Then we can go from there," he adds.
He then went on the say that the main focus of the program is to deter crime by being the eyes and ears on the ground while leaving interception to law enforcement.
