There are 11 municipal police forces in B.C., including, ridiculously, four in Greater Victoria alone.
Premier David Eby’s government has amended the Police Act to enable municipal police board members who are not mayors to become board chairs. Previously, city mayors automatically took on that role.Evidently this gives the province a considerable influence over board decisions.
That means, in effect, that the provincial government, through its appointees including the new chair, is effectively running the board. That may, in part, explain the provincial government’s insistence that Surrey abandon plans to use the RCMP as its law enforcement agency, and instead install a municipal police board, which the province will control.
Recently, three bus drivers were assaulted, and first responders to an overdose case on Pandora Avenue were swarmed by crowd of around 60 bystanders, one paramedic being kicked in the face. Indeed without adequate law enforcement, the other aspects of daily life are all too easily disrupted.
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