By Kari Janzen, Staff Reporter
Tofield RCMP detachment commander Sgt. Clayton Mamchur met with Tofield Council during their regular council meeting on Monday, Feb. 23 to provide an update on the last quarter, October to December 2025.
Mamchur filled the role as detachment commander in Tofield in September 2025.
“One of the primary things that I had become aware of is that the public was experiencing some difficulty in getting a hold of the detachment in general, and the membership. In order to rectify that, we’ve installed phone lines at each workstation. Prior to that, we were operating with only a singular cell phone,” Mamchur said.
“I know that seems like a small thing, but we’re trying to make incremental steps forward to make the detachment as functional as we possibly can,” he said.
Mamchur said that they are currently short one officer, who has been on sick leave since early October.
“Therefore, we have been operating again at a deficit of one of our constable divisions.
What we needed to do to address that was to change the schedule to maintain the service requirements for Tofield as well as Holden, Ryley, and Beaver County in general,” Mamchur said.
Mamchur also said the detachment has engaged their relief units to cover the absence.
“That is one of the priorities of the division, to support communities and make sure that small detachments like ours, when we do have a resource shortage, that there is some backfill available,” he said.
In the last quarter, Mamchur highlighted the increase in assaults and break and enters.
“There has been an uptick in our assaults. Most of those are domestic violence related. That’s unfortunate, but not something that’s indicative of a lack of policing. It’s more that there have been some problems within those individual homes,” Mamchur said.
Mayor Adam Hall asked to clarify whether it that meant there were a higher number individuals who were charged with assault, or if there could be a number of files associated with one person.
“Could it also be a continuation of the previous year’s files?” Hall asked.
“Not only that,” Mamchur said, “but one family can generate more than one file. For instance, we’ve had incidents in the last three days with a singular person that generated two files.”
To address the rise in break and enters, Mamchur said that the detachment has been updating the list of areas they routinely patrol.
“There has also been an uptick in break and enters and property related offenses.”
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