The Windsor Police Service is working on strategies to deal with an opioid crisis, which has become prevalent in communities across Canada.
Chief Al Frederick recently met with EMS and hospital officials.
"Trying to discuss strategies to deal with both the danger that [the drug] poses to those abusing it, and the dangers that poses to emergency responders," he says. "For example, this powdered form of fentanyl is deadly if you inhale it."
Frederick plans to unveil prevention, public education, enforcement and medical response strategies early in 2017.
The chief says he thinks the public education portion might be the most important in keeping opioid use to a minimum in Windsor, long-term.
Methamphetamine trafficking and use is also something Frederick says officers will be keying in on over the next year, as the service has seen more of that drug in the last year then it's used to.
