Montreal police increase visibility in RDP amid rising gun violence
Posted June 22, 2022 5:35 pm.
Montreal police (SPVM) were in Rivière–des-Prairies on Wednesday, specifically on Perras Blvd., as they work to reassure the public amid rising gun violence in the area.
Bullets hitting the outside of a daycare in May – in broad daylight – no one hurt.
Police responding to at least eight instances of firearms being discharged in RDP since January.
And a triple murder last August on the same street.
Officers from station 45 setting up a command post Wednesday and meeting residents – as they’ve been increasing visibility in the area.
“It’s a priority for every unit in our department. And we see today it’s a joint operation, but not exclusively a police operation. It’s a shared responsibility because gone are the days where we used to say that public security is exclusively a police matter,” said Salvatore Serrao, spokesperson on the fight against gun violence for the SPVM.
(CREDIT: Martin Daigle/CityNews)
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“The mission is to assure citizens that we’re present. And by doing door-to-door, we will be able to collect any type of information that can help us. And it may seem that the information is unimportant or trivial, but when we combine it together, it may it may lead to the resolving of the case.”
Police are asking anyone that has any information about any gun-related incidents to contact them through their local stations, 911, or confidentially through Info-Crime Montréal 514-393-1133 or their online form.
