MHPS joins other police agencies donating gear, clothes to Ukraine

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Police chief Mike Worden says the decision to help out was a no-brainer and it wasn’t a matter of if but how much.

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“We were excited to be a part of this with, again, with other agencies across Alberta to be a part of the humanitarian efforts and knowing what’s occurring over there,” says Worden. “Disturbing to watch it on the news and just to play a small little part to be able to protect the people over there, people here, once we kind of put the word around the building people were excited to try to find what we could to donate.”

Worden adds MHPS will participate again if other opportunities to help Ukraine come up.

With donation bins at Calgary police facilities across the city, they collected more than 450 kilograms of items like boots, pants, shirts, tuques, gloves and socks that they no longer need. Edmonton Police Service added 60 sets of soft body armour, 98 hard armour plates and some ballistic helmets that the organization had deemed surplus.

Lethbridge Police Service donated 40 sets of body armour equipped with plates, as well as 25 pairs of boots. Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service contributed seven sets of soft body armour.