Low number of arrests and fines during Oktoberfest, police report
Police made 10 arrests for Criminal Code violations during Oktoberfest this year
Just 38 people were arrested or fined during Oktoberfest this year, the lowest number on record, police say.
The number matched 2014, Waterloo Regional Police said in a report that will go before the police services board on Wednesday.
The number of people arrested and taken to central lock-up, and tickets handed out for public nuisance or Liquor Licence Act offences, were "at the lowest level on record."
There were 10 people arrested for Criminal Code violations – six were for assault and three were for causing a disturbance by fighting.
Not mentioned in the report is a Special Investigations Unit investigation into a serious injury reported at the Altes Muenchen Haus at the Queensmount Arena.
The SIU said there was an interaction between a 43-year-old man and officers. The man was arrested, taken to the detachment and then released a short time later. The man was later diagnosed with a serious injury.
Police that were part of the Oktoberfest Policing Unit from Oct. 5 to 16 clocked 2,000 operational policing hours for just Oktoberfest, including 925 hours to do festhall patrols and Oktoberfest event security, as well as another 1,040 hours of paid duty officer time at various festhalls.