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Lethbridge Watch program recruiting more volunteers

Only two months into the program, the downtown Watch is already looking to expand.

The Lethbridge Police safety initiative is recruiting another 20 volunteers.

Watch Manager Jeff Hansen says the red shirts and jackets have been welcomed with open arms downtown, but in order to keep rolling at good pace, they need to beef up their volunteer numbers. “We’ve found with 24 volunteers now, it’s just not enough to continue the success. Just adding additional volunteers, which had been in the mix, will help make scheduling easier and will give us a max amount of people (from the Watch) on the streets at any given time between 10 am and 10 pm.

Highly visible and recognizable by their red shirts and coats, Watch patrollers are deployed seven days a week throughout the year to enhance public safety and connect citizens with the appropriate response from police, EMS or social and community services.

Watch volunteers are connected directly to LPS by radio and patrol downtown Lethbridge in teams. They are responsible for reporting criminal activity, safety concerns, traffic hazards, nuisance behaviour, keeping a daily record of all incidents and activities, providing First Aid, tourist information and Safe Walk services.

All volunteer shifts are four hours long. Applications can be found on the Lethbridge Police Service web site until July 19th.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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