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Surrey’s police chief hopes to have uniformed officers on the streets sometime this fall in what he called a “soft launch” of the new municipal force that will replace the RCMP.
“I have a personal goal of getting boots on the ground for fall of this year, “ Chief Const. Norm Lipinski said in an online address to the Surrey Board of Trade on Wednesday, the same day a citizen’s group launched an effort using B.C. law to force a referendum on switching from the RCMP to the city force.
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MONCTON, N.B. The labour association representing RCMP members says it s pleased obstruction charges against two officers in New Brunswick have been dropped. National Police Federation president Brian Sauve said Tuesday in a news release the charges against Cpl. Mathieu Potvin and Const. Eric Pichette were dropped Monday. Potvin and Pichette were among three officers charged with obstruction in December 2019; the police have refused to release information about the case. Sauve says Crown prosecutor Claude Hache told a court in Moncton, N.B., on Monday that new evidence indicated there were no longer reasonable grounds for a conviction. A spokesperson for the Justice Department confirmed Monday that new evidence had come to light that was sufficient for the department to conclude a reasonable prospect of conviction no longer existed. The department said the evidence is privileged and cannot be disclosed.
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VICTORIA – Non-essential travel is being restricted between three regional zones in British Columbia to try to curb the spread of COVID-19, but the union representing RCMP officers says the ban lacks clarity.
The government is using the boundaries of three health authorities to prohibit travel between them. The three regional zones are: the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley; Vancouver Island; and the northern and Interior regions.
Solicitor General Mike Farnworth, who is also the minister of public safety, said the new orders are being brought in using the extraordinary powers of the Emergency Program Act.
The order went into effect Friday and is to expire on May 25, by which point the province expects to have administered at least one dose of vaccine to about 60 per cent of eligible residents, doubling the current number.