Victoria police chief says workload is not being shared fairly. Regional force makes sense, says criminology professor.
That was Victoria Police Chief Del Manak’s reaction to data released Tuesday by Statistics Canada showing the volume and severity of police-reported crime in Victoria in 2021 was once again well above the provincial average and that of Vancouver.
The index also shows that combined, all of the region’s municipalities have an index of 71.5, which Manak said illustrates the concentration of activity in Victoria.“The disparity in the crime severity index and the fact that the city of Victoria continues to face the highest crime severity index of any community in B.C.
Manak said his team of 249 officers have been stretched thin for years as it faces the burden of policing the region’s night-time playground not to mention having to deal with the fallout from the bulk of the social housing, supports and services for marginalized citizens all being located in Victoria.
He said the index was designed to try to provide a more meaningful interpretation of broad statistics and because it weighs the severity of crimes reported it was supposed to prevent people from drawing the wrong conclusions about crime rates on the basis of an increase number of the number of bicycles being stolen.“At first blush, it looked awful,” he said.
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