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Closing. 6 August. Main venue. Canada Life Centre. ← 2022. 2025 →. The 2023 World Police and Fire Games were held in Winnipeg, Manitoba from July 28 to August 6. The event featured 8,500 athletes from over 70 countries in 60 different sports. [1][2] 2,800 volunteers helped to run the games in 2023. [3]
The World Police and Fire Games (WPFG) is a biennial athletic event, open to active and retired law enforcement and fire service personnel throughout the world. The WPFG Federation is an arm of the California Police Athletic Federation (CPAF), [1] an American non-profit organization. The Games attract approximately 10,000 entrants, slightly ...
The Vendettas Motorcycle Club, or Vendettas Crew, is an International outlaw motorcycle club founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 2009. It was established by the more well-known Rock Machine Motorcycle Club (RMMC) to act as a support club throughout the Canadian province of Manitoba, but would grow to be an international support club of the RMMC with chapters in Canada, Australia, Russia ...
Operations. The Winnipeg Police Service headquarters is located at 245 Smith Street, in the former Canada Post sortation facility, in the downtown area. The previous headquarters was the Public Safety Building, built in 1966, and has been demolished to make way for the Marketlands development.
2022 Winnipeg serial killings. Between March and May 2022, four Indigenous-Canadian women, Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and an unidentified woman referred to as Mashkode Bizhiki'ikwe (or Buffalo Woman), were murdered by Jeremy Skibicki. He was charged for the murders on December 1, 2022. [1]
The 13th World Police and Fire Games was held at Metro Vancouver in the Summer of 2009. For the protection of international athletes and due to the presence of firearms in competition, importation of pharmaceutical products, and other restricted articles under Canadian law, the BC2009WPFGISU was formed to integrate all regulatory function.
On 20 June 1959, Winnipeg would be the first in North America to receive a three-digit emergency number for police, fire, and ambulance—Dial 999 (eventually changed to 911). The next year, on the first of March, the WFD adopted a four-platoon system, granting firefighters a 42-hour workweek (two 10-hour days, two 14-hour night shifts in 8 ...
The Winnipeg police arrested them on their way to kill Williams with two sawed-off shotguns in their possession. [85] Maytwayashing in turn became unpopular within the Indian Posse and on 13 April 2004 was badly beaten at the Remand Centre in Winnipeg in an assault led by another Indian Posse member Raymond Armstrong. [86]