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Operation Heat/Freeze: Lethbridge Police rewarding good behaviours

The Lethbridge Police Service is partnering up with Circle K & Mac’s convenience stores and Lethbridge and Southern Alberta Crime Stoppers to launch Operation Heat/Freeze.

It’s a Canada-wide positive ticketing program which links up police services and those convenience stores.

The program rewards citizens exhibiting positive behaviour with complimentary coupons for cold beverages in the summer and hot drinks in the winter.

LPS Sergeant Mike Williamson says this is a great opportunity for officers here to recognize and reward good behaviour. “It seems like we hear a lot about the negative that goes on while the good deeds and the random acts of kindness that we know happen every day, are going unnoticed. This program will help change that.”

The Lethbridge Police Service says it strongly supports initiatives that foster community engagement and the positive ticketing program will provide the opportunity for officers to build and strengthen relationships with the people that they serve.

Lethbridge Police officers, along with members of the Watch and CPOs, have been provided with Operation Heat/Freeze coupons to give out.

(With files from Lethbridge Police Service)

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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