Calgary Police Service tightens ties with Colombian community
Posted May 29, 2012 1:42 pm.
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Dozens of members of Calgary’s Colombian community are visiting Calgary Police headquarters in the northeast, Tuesday, and not because they are in trouble.
The CPS is hosting the Colombian Consulate.
Constable Garry Woods with the Diversity Resource Team tells 660News, the initiative is designed to help improve ties between police and the city’s Colombian community.
(The Colombian community) “numbers somewhere in the range of between seven and ten thousand,” says Woods. “And while he’s” (representative of the Colombian Consulate) “here, he’ll be issuing passports, visas, identity cards, all those types of services that you would normally get in a consul.”
In essence, the Calgary Police Service offices are being used as a temporary headquarters for the Colombian Consulate.
“It is certainly something that the Calgary Police Service would look to provide for all our communites,” adds Woods, saying it’s something the CPS would consider to tighten ties in the community with other ethnic groups. “It’s nice to welcome communities into our headquarters for reasons other than regular police business.”
Woods says bringing the Colombian Consulate here means Colombian nationals don’t have to travel to Vancouver in order to obtain goverment documentation.
The last time the CPS hosted the Colombian Consulate was in 2009.
