Laval Police Launch Projet Cyclope To Counter Prostitution, Drugs In an effort to counter the growing phenomenon of prostitution and drug dealing in Chomedey South, the Laval police have launched a program that has proven quite successful in Montreal and Gatineau. The Cyclope Program aims at countering prostitution solicitation and harassment, which is quite bothersome to residents living in the area delimited by Cure-Labelle, Perron, 75th Avenue and 80th Avenue in Chomedey. Inspector Michel Pare says the police force became concerned with the growing prostitution and drug problem in the area. "Many citizens had signaled their discomfort towards the prostitution and drugs that has existed in the area for more than 10 years, but which has amplified over the past few years," he said. "We then looked at ways to resolve this growing problem." [continues 562 words]
Accidental Pricking Highlights Chomedey South's Problematic Area Chomedey South is often seen as a paradox, as young families with children co-exist alongside urban problems like prostitution and drug usae and peddling. However, the area's problems were highlighted following an incident last week, when a little girl pricked herself with a discarded needle. Seven-year-old Marie-Jane was walking to her bus stop on 79th Avenue on March 27 when she found the syringe in some nearby bushes. "I was really curious, I wanted to play doctor," Marie-Jane said. "I showed it to all my friends but some of them said I shouldn't play with that. But I stung myself two times with it, I didn't bleed." [continues 648 words]
More than 2,500 policemen and policewomen from across Quebec, Canada and the United States descended upon the St-Vincentde- Paul Church in Laval on March 9 to attend the moving funeral of a fellow policeman. Laval Detective-Sergent. Daniel Tessier, 42, died in the early-morning hours of March 2 following a raid gone wrong in Brossard. A slow procession began at around 11:40 a.m. with thousands of police personnel from across North America walking in silence. The nearby College Laval auditorium was a welcome refuge for the several hundred police who could not enter the church. [continues 628 words]
Hundreds From Various Police Departments To Pay Respect In Friday's Civic Funeral Service Detective -Sergent Daniel Tessier, a 17-year veteran with the Laval Police Department, is dead following a shootout during an early-morning drug raid in a South Shore home on March 2. Laval police were conducting a series of drug raids across Laval and in Brossard. The 42-year-old Tessier and his colleagues entered a private residence on Rimouski Street in Brossard when a gunfight erupted. Tessier was shot in the head while his partner, 46-year-old Stephane Forbes, a 20-yearveteran, was shot in the arm. [continues 570 words]
