Disbanding Surrey's municipal force and hiring 100 new police officers in Vancouver may soon prove untenable
Public safety campaign promises helped clinch victories for the mayors-elect in B.C.’s two biggest cities last month.
He said discussions over public safety in both Surrey and Vancouver have been focused on the wrong priorities. Since then, about 300 municipal police officers have been recruited to the Surrey Police Service , half of whom have been deployed into policing operations alongside the RCMP. The SPS estimates it will cost $64 million over five years to transition from the RCMP, while Locke has claimed retaining the Mounties would save taxpayers $520 million over five years.
Both she and Gordon said most of the expenditures associated with stopping the SPS transition are associated with personnel, while all the capital costs related to recently acquired hardware such as cars or investments in IT can be fully recovered. “This is going to be mired in litigation over the next four years of this term of [Surrey city] council if they turn it back. The litigation, the lawyers involved, the costs – again, bearing the costs are the taxpayers of Surrey,” said Heed. “There are other things they can do to mitigate this. They can go through the transition, and they can slow it down a little bit more to kind of firm up what the vision should be or what the product needs to be at the end of the day.
Vancouver North of the Fraser, Vancouver’s Sim said at his first news conference since winning the mayoralty that his No. 1 priority would be hiring 100 new police officers and 100 mental health nurses.Sim did not make himself available for an interview prior to deadline.
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