Oshawa Councillor wants new police station, more police, for north part of city

Oshawa councillor Tito-Dante Marimpietri wants a police station in north Oshawa, citing increased gun violence in his ward.

Marimpietri wrote a letter to Interim Durham Police Chief Todd Rollauer, demanding the new station, as well as an increased police presence in the area and “elevated efforts” from the guns and gangs unit.

The councillor’s demands come after an 18 year-old man was shot in a new subdivision in the north end of Oshawa, north of the university.

Marimpietri told Rollauer “things are getting very bad” in north Oshawa, adding that crime has “evolved” to become “much more violent.”

“The residents in these neighbourhoods not only deserve this augmented level of police action and increased protection, they desperately need it,” he said in the letter.

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