The Kenora OPP says their clearance rate for property crimes has improved over the years.
Acting inspector Jim Neild says the use of technology is the biggest difference.
“The fact that we have the ability to use of CCTV cameras at a later date, to investigate crimes that have happened, to try to get that video evidence, has had a huge impact on how we can do and to solve crime on things that occurred in Kenora,” Neild reported to the OPP Detachment Police Service Board recently.
Neild says year over year, their clearance rate has gone up significantly.
“Property crime, which is usually traditionally one of the hardest things to solve, because there’s no one around, that has even gone up 17 percent. Several partners, including the City of Kenora, the Kenora District Services Board, school boards and businesses in the area. We’re leveraging their technology.”
Neild says the clearance rates for violent crime is 81 percent and property crime.
He adds that they have a team of three officers that go through the video footage and to help solve crimes, and give other officers leads and tips and descriptions of clothing worn by perpetrators.
