Faced with wildly different information from the Surrey Police Service, RCMP and City of Surrey over the cost, staffing and mechanics of cancelling the transition to a municipal police force, Mike Farnworth’s ministry has gone back to the drawing board with a series of detailed requests for information from everyone.
The BC NDP government is stalling for time on Surrey policing, as it struggles to figure out what is true amidst all the political rhetoric flying around in the debate over the future of the city’s police force.
“The work being done in my ministry is doing just that, to look at what is accurate, where are the gaps in Surrey’s plan, where are the gaps in the RCMP plan, and get to the actual realistic issues that have been identified that need further information,” said Farnworth. If her goal was to bully the NDP government into a decision, it backfired. New Democrats were aghast at the idea they might somehow get blamed for a 55 per cent tax hike in the most important political region in the province, effectively torpedoing their chances at re-election.The two sides in the debate agree on almost nothing.
The transition from the RCMP to a municipal police force in Surrey was already overwhelmingly complex when it was first proposed several years ago. The proposal to halt that in mid-stream, and reverse course back to the RCMP, makes it several orders of magnitude more difficult.
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