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ANNOUNCED for southern Alberta


BY TREVOR BUSCH insight magazine


Minister Doug Schweitzer was in south- ern Alberta to highlight several announcements to help combat addic- tions and organized crime. Schweitzer announced his govern- ment is providing Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) with a $50 million budget increase for initiatives to disrupt and dismantle organized crime.A portion of this new funding has been used to establish a specialized team in southern Alberta to investigate property crime motivated by the trade in illegal drugs. “That was really important,because we heard loud and clear from peo- ple that rural crime is a serious issue, and property crimes is an area we have to address,”said Schweitzer in an interview with Insight magazine. “Establishing a coordinated unit is going to allow us to see the trends happen in the community and allow us to respond to the prolific offend- ers that we have that are committing a lot of the offenses related property crime.The reason we’re talking about property crime and drugs is that the property that is being stolen is quite often being monetized to buy drugs. So we want to make sure we can cut off the supply-stream of cash to be able to combat organized crime elements that are praying on those that have addictions.” The province also announced that Medicine Hat will have one of the


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Doug Schweitzer, former Justice Minister


five drug treatment courts established outside of Edmonton and Calgary as part of a four-year investment of up to $20 million toward expanding the program across the province. “The other side of the equation is the drug treatment courts,” said


Schweitzer.“These are programs that have existed in Calgary and Edmonton for the last 16 years, and they’ve seen a tremendous amount of success in taking people that are struggling with addiction into a court- supervised process of 12-18 months where they have to admit their guilt to the offense up front, and then report to a judge on a weekly or bi-week- ly basis on the process that they’re making on their treatment.We’ve really had an immense amount of success with the graduates of these programs — 70 per cent of the time they never commit another offense again.” Drug treatment courts help break the cycle of crime motivated by


addiction by giving people who commit non-violent offences access to judicially-supervised treatment and recovery.Treatment is supplemented by frequent drug testing, incentives, sanctions and social services support.


2 - insight magazine september 2020


hortly before being shuffled into his new portfolio as Minister of Jobs, Economy and Innovation in late August, former Justice


NEW DRUG TREATMENT COURTS


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