Kamloops RCMP investigate a shooting at the Tournament Inn in Valleyview, March 13 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
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Kamloops nets $2 million in federal gun crime prevention funding
Mar 16, 2023 | 12:09 PM
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KELOWNA — Kamloops is getting $2 million from the federal public safety ministry to prevent gun crime and gang violence.
The announcement was made in Kelowna yesterday by Pam Damoff, the parliamentary secretary to federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendecino. Damoff announced a total of $6.9 million spread between Kamloops, Kelowna ($2 million), Vernon ($953,000), Penticton (just over $1 million) and Salmon Arm ($828,000).
The money comes from the government’s $250-million Building Safer Communities Fund.
Damoff says the money will “help address the underlying conditions that give rise to crime.”
