The Foothills Rural Crime Watch Association continues to work with their members to improve how they do things.

President Don Larson says they're getting close on one bit of technology that will make a big difference.

"We're in the final steps of just trying to put in place our "Fan Out" system. Where working through the Safe Communities Alert Network and the RCMP, is that people will be alerted to any serious crime in their area through the "Fan Out" system.

Larson says it would work just like the High River Alert System, sending text, email and voice messages to computers and smart phones alerting members about serious situations happening close to where they live.

Larson says he's also pretty excited about a new development with a local MLA.

Highwood MLA R.J. Sigurdson will chair the Provinces new Committee on Rural Crime.

Larson says it's never a bad thing to have a local MLA calling the shots on a committee like that.

I think I'd view that as a real positive. It'd be an opportunity for the people who are in a legislative point of view to do something about it (rural crime), to hear directly from the folks who are affected by it."

Larson says he also expects to hear a lot about rural crime during the campaign heading into October's federal election.

 

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