Surrey council is considering the report – that estimated sticking with the RCMP would save $235 million over five years – tonight.
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“We believe that the many assumptions made in this report have contributed to the city providing an inflated cost to taxpayers to continue with the transition to SPS, which they have stated is $235.4M over five years,” SPS chief Norm Lipinski said in a statement Monday morning.Surrey ConnectThe SPS was not consulted on the report that council will consider tonight. It relies on input from city staff, the RCMP and two consultants hired by the city, both of whom are former RCMP officers.
The province has the final decision on police force status in Surrey. B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth has given Surrey a deadline of Dec. 15 to provide a report. The RCMP and the SPS haveWhether those reports would be made public is unclear. In a news release on Monday, the SPS says the city’s report over-estimates the number of municipal police officers who would transfer to the Surrey RCMP. A Surrey Police Union survey of its members found 94 per cent were not interested in joining the RCMP.
The SPS debates the report’s contention the new police force would have trouble recruiting the remaining 419 officers needed, pointing to its more than 2,500 applications received in less than two years. The SPS noted that conversely the report does not mention the RCMP’s documented recruiting challenges laid out in a
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