Retail crime crackdown extended through October

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A campaign to curb retail and violent crime has been extended through September and October, Premier Wab Kinew announced Thursday.

Kinew announced $774,000 in additional funding to extend the program, which had been scheduled to after August, at a news conference at Canadian Footwear on Adelaide Street.

In early June, the province provided $378,000 to fund four weeks of Winnipeg Police Service patrols, in which officers work overtime to target retail crime hot spots in the Exchange District, Osborne Village and the West End.

The province said in late June it was extending the funding into July. The province announced in early July that it was spending $1 million to extend the program throughout August.