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This brings the total number of DRPS front-line officers, the ones that drive around officers coming in the fraud unit and one in the sexual assault officers to 858 in 2009, with 307 full-time ci- in cruisers that people can see,” asked Dur- unit to focus on child abuse investigations and vilians as well as part-time staff, who are the ham regional Chairman Roger Anderson at to Pickering and Ajax assistance to victims of crime. equivalent of 50 full-timers. Monday’s meeting. Two detective constables will be hired in the In addition to the 19 new officers, the service “Yes they are,” confirmed the chief. intelligence unit as part of a new unit aimed at has received approval for seven additional of- Last year the police budget included eight By Reka Szekely prolific and violent criminals and gang mem- ficers under a federal program aimed at getting new officers. [email protected] DURHAM — There will be 26 new officers on the streets of Durham next year, despite the fact the police are faced with a budget crunch. Initially, the Region was looking to raise HITTING THE RIGHT NOTE property taxes by 4.9 per cent. Of the total property tax increase, 1.5 per cent would have gone to the Durham Regional Police Services (DRPS). But, when Regional council chose to decrease its budget guideline to a four-per- cent tax increase, the police slice of the fund- ing pie decreased to 1.3 per cent. As a result, the police will have $431,000 less to work with than originally expected, but the 2009 budget, at $137.8 million, will still be larger than this year’s $131.6 million. “I’m content we can reach that budget tar- get,” said Police Chief Mike Ewles at Monday’s police services board meeting. In order to get there from the budget first proposed, the police have changed the fuel costs, given that gas prices are trending lower. Also, they’re looking at other factors, such as the number of staff who take their statutory holidays as opposed to working and getting paid extra. Finally, if the budget tightens next year, the police can leave vacancies empty a little longer before filling them. However, the chief says he’s hoping it won’t come to that. The volatility of fuel is the risk in the budget, he said. Overall, the police did not have much flex- ibility as the largest portion of the budget goes to salaries and benefits. Jason Liebregts/ News Advertiser photo “Can’t really touch that at all,” said Chief PICKERING — David Schindler rehearses with the Pickering Concert Band in preparation for their upcoming show ‘Christmas 2008, Here Ewles. Of the 19 new officers in the police bud- We Come’ on Nov. 23 at Forest Brook Community Church at 2:30 p.m. get, eight will be front-line constables in Ajax and Pickering and four in Oshawa. 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Again CONGRATULATIONS!!! - L’Oreal Professional 210 Brock Street, Whitby 905.666.3805 www.valentinos.ca durhamregion.com THE NEWS ADVERTISER, November 20, 2008 PAGE 3 A/P Murder plot discussed in whispers: witness Jury in biker trial president of the Oshawa Hells Angels chap- motorcycle. At times their voices drop and hears wiretaps ter, and Remond Akleh, a member of the are inaudible; that, Mr. Gault testified, was Angels’ elite Nomads branch. The men have when they talked about the murder con- pleaded not guilty to conspiring to commit spiracy. By Jeff Mitchell murder and counselling to commit murder. “We started whispering -- we were talking [email protected] Mr. Gault, 35, has testified he was already about Lenti again,” he said. acting as a police agent, gathering informa- Mr. Gault -- at one point on the tape WHITBY — The conversation ran from tion on drug dealing among bikers, when played in the Whitby courtroom he’s heard mundane to murder when a police agent he was approached in June 2006 by Mr. saying, “Bam, bam, bam, bam!” -- said he met with a high-ranking Hells Angel to dis- Akleh and Mr. Stephenson with the plot told Mr. Stephenson the best way to carry Photo by Michael Racioppo cuss dealing with an underworld rival, a jury to eliminate Mr. Lenti, whose ties with the out to the job was to carefully target Mr. A car was destroyed in a late night fire on has been told. rival Bandidos crew were causing concern Lenti, rather than spraying bullets and “not Burcher Road in Ajax Tuesday night. There were no injuries. Crown witness Steven Gault testified among Hells Angels in Ontario. The witness doing it right.” Tuesday he and Mark Stephenson alter- said he was wearing a concealed recording “The topic at this point is what?” Crown nated between talk of biker colleagues and device supplied by police when he visited counsel Mitchell Flagg asked. clearing felled brush to whispers about as- Mr. Stephenson’s house in July 2006. “Killing Frank Lenti,” Mr. Gault replied. sassinating Frank Lenti when they met at On the recording the men are heard talk- Mr. Lenti’s name wasn’t mentioned on No injuries when Mr. Stephenson’s Sunderland home in the ing about removing brush from the property the tapes played for jurors; neither were any summer of 2006. and discussing issues related to the club, overt references to a murder plot. Mr. Gault has been testifying since last including one biker’s cocaine habit and an- The trial, presided over by Superior Court car destroyed Wednesday in the trial of Mr. Stephenson, other’s difficulties making payments on his Justice Bruce Glass, continues. by fire in Ajax Police release video in shooting probe AJAX — A car was destroyed in a late night fire in Ajax Tuesday night. The blaze destroyed a 1996 Pontiac ‘Persons of interest’ sought industrial plaza where the shooting took back with the Saskatoon Hilltops of the Grand Am parked in the driveway at 60 place and was captured about 10 minutes Canadian Junior Football League, was ar- Burcher Rd.