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EAST DISTRICT Winnipeg E-Watch is an online tool created by the Winnipeg Police Service Crime Prevention Section.  This program is designed to alert you via email of recent crime activity in your community, and to provide you with timely crime prevention tips, tools and information. View recent Residential Break and Enters in your neighbourhood. View recent Stolen Vehicles in your neighbourhood. LINKS TO ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Search a Licence Plate to find out if it has been reported stolen. View current crime activity via the Winnipeg Police Service CrimeStat website. CRIME PREVENTION TIP   NEW Bike Helmet Legislation As of May 1, 2013, a new law makes it compulsory for cyclists under 18 to wear a properly fitted and fastened helmet when cycling. The law also applies to children under 18 when they are passengers on a bicycle or on or in anything attached to or towed by a bicycle. Helmets must be certified by standards such as the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), Snell Memorial Foundation, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) or the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Parents or guardians are responsible for making sure children wear bicycle helmets. If your child, under the age of 14, is cycling without wearing a helmet, you can be ticketed under The Highway Traffic Act if you knowingly allow your child to ride without a bicycle helmet. Teenagers who are between the ages of 14 – 18 can be fined directly. The total fine for not wearing a bicycle helmet is $63.10. A Fine Alternative The new    For further Crime Prevention information visit our website at http://www.winnipeg.ca/police/tblofcontents/crimeprevention.stm

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