For almost 20 years, Police Station 9 was located in District 2 at the corner of Cavendish Boulevard and Kildare Road. A few months ago the station which serves Cöte Saint-Luc, Hampstead and Montreal West, relocated to the Olymbec owned strip shopping centre on Westminster Avenue best known for formerly housing The Famous Delly Boys and a Scotiabank.
While I was naturally disappointed to see them leave my district, we were all relieved that the station remained in Côte Saint-Luc and did not simply merge with Station 11 in NDG.
Commander Jean O'Malley has retired and will soon begin a new job as director of public security for the Town of Hampstead. His successor will be named soon. Lieutenant Fred Jennings remains in place.
I was invited to drop by the new station by Community Officer Marie-Christine Nobert. She has been with Station 9 for 21 years, primarily in this position in which she has developed close links with municipality officials, community groups and organizations, schools and seniors. Her partner Vincent Di Angelis is on leave for the moment. Until he returns Officer Andrew Iacovella is filling the void.
"Crime prevention is our goal," Officer Nobert told me. "We want to protect the citizens."
Officers Nobert and Iacovella (and of course Di Angelis) have spent a lot of time in schools, talking about cyber bullying and cybers safety. This summer they will visit every day camp in the territory and hold what they call Police Academy Days. Always a focus is the need to properly wear bike helmets. They will also be working with Liane Fransblow of the Trauma Department of the Montreal Children's Hospital on some programming.
Seniors, says Officer Nobert, are always on their radar screen. "We want to look after the vulnerable and watch out for any incidents of elder abuse," she said. "We are working with the local hospitals and the CLSC to ensure no seniors fall through the cracks."
The Police Station 9 headquarters is open from 9 am to 7 pm seven days a week. Cars patrol 24/7.
Good day sir. Station 9 is the worst police station as they always were. They are lazy and no matter what you come to them for help, they leave you at the entrance and tell you that you have no case. I recently found out that my ex husband opened a credit card in my name when I tried to apply to a credit card at my bank. Even though I have a credit card I wanted to have one with the bank I do business with and was denied because of this fraud by my ex husband. That is the first time that I found out about this fraud as the bank contacted trans union, and was told that a capital one credit card was opened in my name. I tried to file a complaint with station 9, as I knew that my ex husband Elie Kadoch had all my information as we were married for 30 years until I was finally granted a divorce in September of 2015 by the honorable judge Sylvie Devito.
He not only opened this account in my name but also several others. When I went to station 9 on Westminster, I was not only left in the entrance to tell them what I was suffering with but was told by the officer it was too late even though I just found out about this fraud a few days before. I asked to speak to the captain, which was denied to me, and the same officer came back, again in the entrance to tell me that I could fill out a police report but they would not investigate anything. I was treated like I was the criminal and I was unimportant and just a waste of their time. I have no where else to turn and am stuck with a fraudulent report at trans union. This should have been taken care of by the police so I wouldn’t be left in this awful situation, but of course station 9 doesn’t give a shit about the citizens in cote st Luc. They are too busy talking amongst themselves and don’t want to be bothered.
Today I called 911 because my balcony was vandalized. My decorations were cut up, my plants were cut completely, over 2 nights. The only way someone could have come in was through my front door. Since everyone seems to have a key to the apartments, in my building st Patrick’s square on 6767 cote st Luc rd, administered by Chris Pentias, who does nothing he in fact is the problem. Most people hate him. They sent a police officer, Valerie, who started to take my statement, then ran out because she needed the charger for her laptop, and when I offered her mine, she told me that hers was a special one, and needed to go to her car to get it. When she came back quite a while later, I noticed that it just a regular charger that all laptops have. I didn’t say anything, but she than told me that she spoke to her supervisor, and I didn’t need to write more. This is the third time this supervisor refused to help or take things seriously, so I’m left on my own. I’m afraid that someone will come into my apartment again, for the fifth time, and who knows what will happen to me then
I am very sorry to hear this. You should alert your city councillor dberku@cotesaintluc.org