The B.C. government announced today that they are launching a review of policing in the province.
The review will look into how policing is structured and funded.
In a press release, the province states that the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry (MWCI) recommendations will “serve as the blueprint for this overall direction.”
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One debate at the heart of the Commission was the idea of regional police force.
The province does not anticipate a single police force, instead they are making a move towards localizing services within the force.
In October of this year Wally Oppal, Commissioner of the Missing Women’s Inquiry, said “if there had been a regional police force, that information would have been used and Pickton would have been apprehended in March 1997 instead of February 2002. ”
The debate over a single police force remains a divisive issue.
Attorney General Suzanne Anton expects the review to be completed in about a year.
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