Searching for Solutions
As a former mayor of a mid-size city in Canada, I had a first hand account of the rise in social issues facing communities across North America. Searching for Solutions is about examining issues such as the housing crisis, homelessness, mental health, addictions and food insecurity to find disruptive solutions that are having a real impact. Each episode looks at an issue and features a guest that guides us through a problem to a solution. A great resource for people in communities looking how to make a difference at a time when many people are feeling helpless.
Searching for Solutions
Policing and the Opioid Epidemic with Port Hope Chief of Police Tim Farquharson
The opioid epidemic has stretched the resources of communities. Downtowns have become centres for extensive and excessive drug use often out in the open and in public spaces. People look to the police to address this complex issue but is it up to the police to lead the efforts to find solutions to societal issue?
Port Hope Police Service Chief Tim Farquharson joins me to talk about the role of policing in addressing the opioid epidemic. Chief Farquharson is a member of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Drug Advisory Committee and is also the past Chair of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP) Substance Advisory Committee.
Chief Farquharson has spoken extensively on the concept the four-pillar approach to the drug crisis in communities and he has travelled across North America to discuss policing and drug issues.