Mayor Brenda Locke indicated in a statement she read out last week that council would end its battle with the province to keep the Mounties as the force for the city
A Surrey police officer speaks with a colleague at the back of a police vehicle in Surrey, B.C., on July 19, 2023. Brian Sauvé, president of the National Police Federation, said any city pondering a move to its own municipal police force should learn the importance of transparency about all finances and implications of the change.The years-long, zigzagging transition to a municipal police force in Surrey, B.C.
The B.C. government pledged to provide $150-million over five years to cover increased costs and included an assurance that if Surrey Police Service officers were more expensive than RCMP officers in 2029, the province would cover the difference until 2034 up to $20-million. Surrey rejected the offer, but the province has said it would use the $150-million to support the transition anyway.
Surrey Police Board administrator Mike Serr, the former Abbotsford police chief who was appointed by the province last September to temporarily replace the board, had put forward a budget of $141.5-million for 2024. But Surrey council passed a budget that provided for only $48.8-million for the force, something that Mr. Serr has asked the province’s director of policing services to review.
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