RCMP is doing a 'fantastic job' and there is no evidence public safety would improve with a municipal force
The head of the RCMP’s union wants the B.C. government to butt out of the Surrey policing dispute, saying the province should respect the city’s wishes to go back to the Mounties and that neither staffing concerns nor concerns about Ottawa’s interest in maintaining contract policing are valid.
Solicitor General Mike Farnworth is currently locked in a war of words with Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke over policing. Locke reversed the previous mayor’s transition to a new municipal police force, moving to reinstate the RCMP in several council votes, the most recent of which was last month. Farnworth has said the province would strongly prefer the city stick with the new Surrey Police Service, and offered up to $150 million to help cover transition costs.
A report from Farnworth’s ministry raised concerns a transition back to the RCMP could pull officers away from other B.C. detachments. Farnworth has said “binding conditions” against the RCMP pulling officers from other municipalities to restaff in Surrey, warning it would create understaffing problems across the province.
Premier David Eby did announce in 2022 almost $230 million over three years to fill 277 positions, but that didn’t cover all of the 520 unfunded officers, leaving a gap that persists.
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