**TIMMINS POLICE SERVICE NEWS RELEASE**

The Timmins Police Service is the grateful recipient of a donation of PPE mask headband extenders that were provided by a local teacher and his students.

 

Paul Savard, a grade four teacher at W.E. Miller School, was allowed to bring the school’s 3D printers home at the onset of the school closures.

 

With the use of school resources and remote input from students, the bands were printed and the finished products have been distributed to frontline personnel here at TPS

 

This equipment can be used in those circumstances where ear-loop type protective masks are to be used for extended periods of time.

 

The open-source concept reduces the pressure from elastic straps on the back of the ears of the person wearing that type of PPE.

 

The donation of this PPE enhancement equipment was delivered to the Timmins Police this weekend.

 

This equipment is made readily available to front line police officers.

 

This serves as yet another example of how, with the innovative assistance of the general public,  “we are in this together”

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