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Greg Skinner doesn’t disagree with those who suggest there are two pandemics happening right now.
“One caused by the virus, (and then) the resulting mental-health pandemic,” Stratford’s police chief said. “Not just ours, but every community has seen an increase in mental health-related calls for service.”
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The Stratford Police Service alone experienced a nearly 46 per cent surge in mental-health calls last year compared to 2019, and that’s taking into account the pandemic didn’t change our lives until mid-March of 2020.