City says the draft operating budget was created without a decision on policing, but relies on the presumption it will retain the RCMP as the police of jurisdiction
The City of Surrey has released its draft five-year budget, allocating more than half of the property tax increases for 2023 to cover the costs associated with the police transition.
The city says maintaining the Mounties will cost about $235-million less over the next five years than the Surrey Police Force, but “there remains a shortfall of $116.6 million created by the transition process.”This comes about three weeks after Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said the director of police services wanted more information before deciding on the city’s plan to revert to the RCMP as its police force.
Mayor Brenda Locke, who campaigned on maintaining the RCMP, said in the news release Saturday that the policing transition “experiment” is now costing residents and businesses.
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