Stephanie Forster, 39, was shot and killed outside her Coquitlam home on Dec. 8.
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Forster’s friends and family gather Saturday for her celebration of life in her hometown of Selkirk, Man. She said Coquitlam police, the Metro Vancouver force where her sister complained about the harassment, “dropped the ball hard, really hard.” “We have seen increasingly over the years, and particularly the last three years, an erosion of the enforcement side of the protection orders,” she said.Article content
“Enforcement of protection orders is handled by the detachment of jurisdiction and IHIT is not in a position to comment on their protocols,” it said.Advertisement 7A Statistics Canada report from last October shows police-reported family violence increased for the fifth consecutive year in 2021, with a total of 127,082 victims. On average, every six days a woman is killed by an intimate partner, the agency said.
In August 2021, the BC Society of Transition Houses surveyed anti-violence programs across the province. Out of 137 respondents, 89 per cent said women they worked with had disclosed some form of technology-facilitated abuse.
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