A marked Surrey Police Service vehicle was put into service with nine other SPS cruisers in the city on Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
Surrey Police Service replaces RCMP as the city's police of jurisdiction at midnight on Friday, Nov. 29.The Surrey Police Service will replace the RCMP as the city's police of jurisdiction at midnight on Nov. 29, 2024. The Surrey Police Service took over from the RCMP as the city's police of jurisdiction at the stroke of midnight Friday, marking a major milestone in what has been a long and sometimes acrimonious journey.
Lipinsky reiterated that there will be no change to emergency and Surrey police contact numbers, nor will the buildings that police work out of change, other than branding.SPS has hired 475 officers and 73 civilians, he said, with another 400 civilians transferring over as employees of the Surrey Police Board. Lipinski said earlier the SPS will need 785 officers to be fully staffed.
"The City of Surrey decided that they wanted a local police force that was governed locally with a local police board as opposed to the RCMP, which was a force under contract from the federal government," he said. "Both administrations and three levels of government have been working together for the past years, and very comprehensively in the last 10 months, building up to Nov. 29," he said.
In July, Locke and Surrey council finally acquiesced and agreed to accept a $250-million deal from the province to help pay for the transition.
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