Halifax police advise residents of high-risk offender released

CITYnews halifax / By Chris Halef

Posted Jan 17, 2025 03:21:19 PM.

Last Updated Jan 17, 2025 03:49:28 PM.

Police are advising residents of HRM that a high-risk offender is now living in the community.

According to officials, 57-year-old George Durling has been granted statutory release from the Jamieson Community Correctional Centre in Dartmouth.

He is a federal offender serving a two-year sentence for a number of charges, including distribution of child pornography, printing/publishing child pornography and failure to comply with a probation order, among others.

Police said Durling was known to text and call random phone numbers with sexually explicit content.

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Durling has previously been sentenced to three years of probation related to a sexual assault in Manitoba in 1992, 18 months of probation for an assault in Truro in 2019 and one year of probation for an indecent act in Truro in 2022.

Police said his probation and parole conditions limit him from being around children under 16 years of age, he cannot consume alcohol, use or possess any device that allows him access to the internet and may only have one unlocked phone that can be monitored by his parole supervisor.

Police emphasize this information is provided to alert members of the public of his presence in the community and is not intended to encourage any form of vigilante activity or other unreasonable conduct.