Guns and Gangs
Speaker: Acting Staff Sergeant Ken Bryden
Time: 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Place: Honeywell Room, Ottawa City Hall
Street gangs are involved in gambling, drug dealing, stealing from other drug
dealers, prostitution, intimidation, assault and even murder. They are not only
in West Side Story or U.S. ghettos. Members of the Crips and the Bloods do live
in Ottawa. Ottawa Police Service’s chief, Charles Bordeleau, has identified
guns and gangs, road safety and violence against women as his three top
concerns. For good reason. The level of street gang activity has kept OPS’s
Guns and Gangs/Dart (Direct Action Response Team) Unit busy.
Acting Staff Sergeant Ken Bryden from Guns and Gangs/Dart will provide
information on that unit and update us on the street gang situation in Ottawa,
providing statistics and results. He has eighteen years of service, most of it
in the Criminal Investigations Directorate. That includes time in the Guns and
Gangs, Drugs, and Criminal Intelligence Units, all parts of Special Operations
in that directorate. Staff Sergeant Bryden previously served on the front lines
as an emergency response officer. He also served as a foot patrol officer in
the Byward Market and as part of the Underwater Search and Recovery Unit.
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