Leaders in Duncan and North Cowichan, B.C., have been reviewing the RCMP's latest report on calls for service in the region.
Overall, there was a slight uptick in calls last year, roughly a two per cent increase in 2022 compared to the year before.
"He treated me like a human instead of just an addict that was a nuisance and in the way all the time," said resident Lance De Bree.Since then, De Bree says he's turned his life around and he now works at a nearby butcher shop.In 2022, calls for service also decreased by 14 per cent in downtown Duncan and by three per cent in the Duncan mall area, according to RCMP.
David van Deventer, president of the Duncan Cowichan Chamber of Commerce, says many of those calls involve property crime, assaults and check-wellbeing requests.
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