B.C.’s Ministry of the Solicitor General says it will be able to provide “further information” on the work underway between the City of Surrey and the province on a possible move to a civic police force “shortly.”
In an email to Global News, the ministry said, “this is a process dealing with many complex issues and details that need to be addressed but the two sides continue to work very well together.”
Meanwhile, a petition opposed to the transition is reaching 25,000 signatures.
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Ivan Scott, who runs the Keep the RCMP in Surrey campaign, says his goal is to collect 50,000 signatures.
Scott, whose son is a Surrey RCMP officer, says gathering the signatures has almost become a full-time job.
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He says his campaign has faced resistance from the city.
“When we started out I had no idea what form this would take and I just very humbly went out and started taking a few signatures.”
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