N.S. premier commits to inquiry's call for review of policing services

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NDP Leader Claudia Chender said her caucus would work to make sure governments follow the commission's advice.

Chender said the commissioners called for a change in how community safety is viewed and funded, including addressing gender-based violence.

"The commissioner [on Thursday] went out of his way to say every so often we have a mass casualty, but every day we deal with the awful impacts of gender-based violence and that it's long since time we take that seriously," she told reporters at Province House.

Calls for increased community safety often result only in increased budgets for law enforcement, said Chender, adding that the report makes clear that that must change.

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Claudia Chender MLA