Trinity Conception District: Harbour Grace and Bay Roberts

RCMP, Trinity Conception District
Harbour Grace 709- 596-5014
Bay Roberts 709-786-2118
P.O. Box 550
# 140 Cathedral St.
Harbour Grace, NL
A0A 2M0

Trinity Conception District consists of two Detachments, Harbour Grace and Bay Roberts.

The geographic boundaries of the District:

To the west; the town of Islington on route 80, to the East the town of Carbonear on route 70, to the North the town of Bay de Verde on route 70 and to the South the town of Marysvale on route 60, route 75 to the TCH and all the land and water area within these points.

The District polices an expansive area with a population of 37,675 people in 60 different communities ( Census 2006). This translates to 1345 residents per one police officer, one of the highest populations to police ratios in the province. The three largest communities which contain most if not all of the major amenities are; Bay Roberts, Harbour Grace, and Carbonear.

Staffing:

Trinity Conception District has:

• 26 uniformed regular members (police officers)
  
• Two plain clothes regular members (GIS)
  
• Three district services assistants
  
• Six Auxiliary Constables
  
• One Police Dog Service

The District Commander (Staff Sergeant) and the Operations Non Commissioned Officer (NCO - Sergeant) work from the Harbour Grace Detachment. There are four team leader supervisors (Corporals) and 19 investigators (Constables) that are assigned zones to work in the district either out of the Harbour Grace office or Bay Roberts. The three district assistants work at the Harbour Grace Detachment. One district assistant works on average two days a week at the Bay Roberts Detachment.

There are two General Investigative Section (GIS) police officers (Corporal and a Constable) who work out of the Harbour Grace office. There is one full time community policing officer who works out of the Bay Roberts Office. The Community Policing officer is the coordinator for all programs delivered by police in the schools including; School Liaison, Community Policing Liaison, Drug Awareness, Victim Services and Aboriginal policing. There is one Police Dog Service Corporal who responds to detachment areas on the Avalon Peninsula, and has an office at the Bay Roberts Detachments.

The District is ideally situated only a one hour drive from St. John's which has all of the major amenities; hospitals, restaurants, shopping etc., that a person could want.

Bay Roberts - http://www.bayroberts.com/

Harbour Grace - http://www.hrgrace.ca/index2.html

Carbonear - http://www.carbonear.ca/comm.htm