The B.C. government has the final say on halting the transition to the Surrey Police Service.
of the city’s RCMP painted at Monday’s city council meeting, in which a “framework” for halting the transition was endorsed by Locke’s majority-Surrey Connect members.city and the RCMP has struck a “joint project team”
RCMP Assistant Commissioner Brian Edwards, head of the Surrey RCMP, said crime stats are down and pointed to RCMP teams he said were tailored to the city’s needs including on gang enforcement and mobile street enforcement. Edwards said the Mounties would need to add more than 160 officers to bring its staffing to 734 officers but saw no problem in doing that.Article content
The union said it was so worried about the staffing levels that it submitted complaints over health and safety for both RCMP and SPS officers under the Canada Labour Code and also to WorkSafeBC. Both complaints were rejected because of jurisdictional issues. “I call on the Surrey Police Service executive to expend all efforts to discontinue this harmful rhetoric from the Surrey Police Union,” said Edwards.
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